Flash crowd mitigation via an adaptive admission control based on application-level measurement. Chen, X. & Heidemann, J. Technical Report ISI-TR-557, USC/Information Sciences Institute, May, 2002.
Flash crowd mitigation via an adaptive admission control based on application-level measurement [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
We propose the network early warning system (NEWS) to protect servers and networks from flash crowds, which usually happen when too many requests are sent to a web site simultaneously. NEWS is an self-tuning admission control mechanism, which imposes application-level congestion control (AppCC) between requests and responses. NEWS detects flash crowds from changes in web response rate. Based on the application-level observations, NEWS adjusts the admitted request rate automatically and adaptively. Simulation results show that NEWS detects flash crowds within 10 minutes (about 2-3 detection intervals). By delaying 56% of requests, NEWS is able to reduce the packet drop rate for responses from 17% to 1%. The aggregated response rate for admitted requests is twice as fast with NEWS as compared to without. This performance is similar to the best possible rate limiter.
@TechReport{Chen02a,
	author = 	"Xuan Chen and John Heidemann",
	title = 	"Flash crowd mitigation via an adaptive admission control based on application-level measurement",
	institution = 	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	year = 		2002,
	sortdate = 		"2002-05-01",
	project = "ant, saman, conser",
	jsubject =  "chronological",
	number =	"ISI-TR-557",
	month =		may,
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	keywords =	"NEWS, admission control, congestion control",
	otherurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7exuanc/paper/news.pdf",
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	pdfurl =	"https://ant.isi.edu/%7ejohnh/PAPERS/Chen02a.pdf",
	myorganization =	"USC/Information Sciences Institute",
	abstract = "
We propose the network early warning system (NEWS) to protect servers
and networks from flash crowds, which usually happen when too many
requests are sent to a web site simultaneously. NEWS is an self-tuning
admission control mechanism, which imposes application-level
congestion control (AppCC) between requests and responses. NEWS
detects flash crowds from changes in web response rate.  Based on the
application-level observations, NEWS adjusts the admitted request rate
automatically and adaptively.  Simulation results show that NEWS
detects flash crowds within 10 minutes (about 2-3 detection
intervals). By delaying 56\% of requests, NEWS is able to reduce the
packet drop rate for responses from 17\% to 1\%. The aggregated
response rate for admitted requests is twice as fast with NEWS as
compared to without. This performance is similar to the best possible
rate limiter.
",
}

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