NAP: A building block for remediating performance bottlenecks via black box network analysis

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-187

  Ben Yehuda, Muli ^a   Breitgand, David ^a   Factor, Michael ^a   Kolodner, Hillel ^a   Kravtsov, Valentin ^b   Pelleg, Dan ^a  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomic computing; Cloud computing; Elastic computing; Performance management; Traffic analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING; CLOUD COMPUTING; ELASTIC COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70049084055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555228.1555270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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