... property of the
underlyingnetworked system, namely, the heavy-tailed nature of ®le size or Web
document distributions at the application layer. The authors show that when objects
sampled from
... frequency
obeying power laws as a function of some popularity index (e.g., ranking). Hypertext
documents and hyperlinks can be viewed as forming a directed graph, and the
resulting graph structure ... across UNIX process life time distribution [35, 51], UNIX ®le
size distribution [35, 51], and Web document size distribution [3, 15] points toward
CPU scheduling policies that make active use of...