Many organizations have chosen to host Internet applications at Internet Data Centers (IDCs) located near network access points of the Internet to take advantage of their high availability, large network bandwidths and low network latencies. Current IDCs provide for a dedicated and static allocation of resources to each hosted application. Unfortunately, ...

Though the WWW has come a long way since when it was monikered the World Wide Wait, it is still not reliable during heavy workload conditions. Overloads due to flash arrival of users or diurnal workload patterns are known to exponentially increase download times. More recently, online banks and portals have been the target of Distributed Denial-of-Service ...