Using MIMO feedback control to enforce policies for interrelated metrics with application to the apache web server

IEEE Symposium Record on Network Operations and Management Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 219-234

  Diao, Yixin ^a   Gandhi, Neha ^a   Hellerstein, Joseph L ^a   Parekh, Sujay ^a   Tilbury, Dawn M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Control Theory; MIMO Control; Policy based management; Resource Management; Web Server

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

POLICY-BASED MANAGEMENT;

SERVERS;

EID: 0038387640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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