More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
Transactional requirements, from new application domains and execution environments, are varying and may exceed traditional ACID properties. We believe that transactional middlewa...
Anna-Brith Arntsen, Marts Mortensen, Randi Karlsen...
Fragmentation leads to unpredictable and degraded application performance. While these problems have been studied in detail for desktop filesystem workloads, this study examines n...
Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to prot...
Ryan Johnson, Manos Athanassoulis, Radu Stoica, An...
In this paper we study in-network query processing in disconnected mobile environments, where both ad-hoc communication and infrastructure communication are available. Depending o...