An $\alpha$ -Stable Model-Based Linear-Parameter-Varying Control for Managing Server Performance Under Self-Similar Workloads

Applying control-theoretic approaches to capacity provisioning and performance management of Web servers is gaining increasing popularity in the past several years. This paper presents a novel control-theoretic approach that is a combination of linear-parameter-varying (LPV) techniques and workload characterization using alpha-stable-model based stochastic envelopes. In particular, we parameterize...