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Performance Evaluation of Mail Systems

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Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems (MASCOTS 2003)

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Electronic mail is the core of modern communications. People rely on email to conduct their business and stay in touch with families and friends. The ubiquity and popularity of email make its QoS an important issue. Performance of mail systems is the result of the interactions between their hardware and software components and the user behavior, that is, how users exploit and exercise these components. This paper addresses the performance issues of mail systems by focusing on the characterization of their workloads and on benchmarking. The mail systems considered in this paper rely on Internet standard messaging protocols.

This work has been supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) under the FIRB and Cofin Programmes.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    Maria Carla Calzarossa

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Pavia, I-27100, Pavia, Italy

    Maria Carla Calzarossa

  2. Professor in the Dennis Gabor Chair Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College, SW7 2BT, London, UK

    Erol Gelenbe

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Calzarossa, M.C. (2004). Performance Evaluation of Mail Systems. In: Calzarossa, M.C., Gelenbe, E. (eds) Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems. MASCOTS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2965. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24663-3_3

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