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Asser N. Tantawi
Researcher at IBM
Publications - 126
Citations - 5889
Asser N. Tantawi is an academic researcher from IBM. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cloud computing & Load balancing (computing). The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 122 publications receiving 5779 citations.
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An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications
TL;DR: This paper presents a model based on a network of queues, where the queues represent different tiers of the application, sufficiently general to capture the behavior of tiers with significantly different performance characteristics and application idiosyncrasies such as session-based workloads, concurrency limits, and caching at intermediate tiers.
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Optimal static load balancing in distributed computer systems
Asser N. Tantawi,Don Towsley +1 more
TL;DR: A distributed computer system that consists of a set of heterogeneous host computers connected in an arbitrary fashion by a communications network is considered, and a general model is developed, in which the host computers and the communications network are represented by product-form queuing networks.
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Approximate analysis of fork/join synchronization in parallel queues
Randolph Nelson,Asser N. Tantawi +1 more
TL;DR: An approximation technique, called scaling approximation, is introduced and applied to the analysis of homogeneous fork/join queuing systems consisting of K>or=2 servers to find upper and lower bounds on the mean response time.
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Connectivity properties of a packet radio network model
TL;DR: A model of a packet radio network in which transmitters with range R are distributed according to a two-dimensional Poisson point process with density D is examined and it is shown that pi R/sup 2/D, the expected number of nearest neighbors of a transmitter, must grow logarithmically with the area of the network.
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Performance management for cluster based Web services
TL;DR: The average response time is used as the performance metric for a performance management system for cluster-based Web services that supports multiple classes of Web services traffic and allocates server resources dynamically so to maximize the expected value of a given cluster utility function in the face of fluctuating loads.