This paper proposes an active networks architecture which supports both integrated and discrete operationmodel based on mobile Agent technology. Mobile Agent is the component for customized function transferring, activenode provides software application layer, and Agent server processes mobile Agent specific customization. For devel-opment and deployment of specific application protocol, this paper also proposes an abstract protocol framework and aprotocol loading mechanism to enhance network performance.
In a distributed Web server system where tasks are unpreemptible,the most important issue for improving quality of service (QoS) is how to realize fairness and reduce average slow down. In this paper we present an algorithm named Scalable TAGS by integrating Central Queue algorithm and Task Assignment by Guessing Size (TAGS), together with its performance analysis, system parameter setting algorithm subject to fairness requirement, and optimal grouping method.
