An adaptive feedback controller for SIP server memory overload protection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-32

  Diao, Yixin ^a   Tantawi, Asser ^a   Hu, Xiaolei ^b   Wu, Haishan ^b  

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

^b IBM CHINA RESEARCH LAB   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Memory overload protection; Modeling; Workload characterization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK; ADMISSION RATE; ANALYTICAL MODEL; BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; CONFIGURABLE; DYNAMIC MEMORY; ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROLLER; MEMORY OVERLOAD PROTECTION; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MODELING; OVER-LOAD; OVERLOAD PROTECTION; QUEUE LENGTHS; SELF-CONFIGURABLE; SIP SERVER; WORKLOAD CHARACTERISTICS; WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL THEORY; CONTROLLERS; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 70049099925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1555228.1555234     Document Type: Conference Paper

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