Prioritized e-mail servicing to reduce non-spam delay and loss: a performance-cost analysis

• Main Authors: Marsono, Muhammad Nadzir, El-Kharashi, M. Watheq, Gebali, Fayez
• Format: Article
• Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/8668/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nem.664
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This paper proposes a prioritized e-mail servicing on e-mail servers to reduce the delay and loss of non-spam e-mails due to queuing. Using a prioritized two-queue scheme, non-spam e-mails are queued in a fast queue and given higher service priority than spam e-mails that are queued in a slow queue....