As high-speed networks make it easier to use distributed resources, it becomes increasingly common that applications and their data are not colocated. Users have traditionally add...
Ian T. Foster, David Kohr, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Jac...
In Department of Defense (DoD) distributed training simulations, events occur that can cause unrealistic behavior. These events can be system events, such as the loss of a hostor ...
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
—Ad hoc networking will become a major technology for wireless connectivity beside the multimedia necessity within the next few years. There are too many applications where one-t...