— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
—The recent interest in outsourcing IT services onto the cloud raises two main concerns: security and cost. One task that could be outsourced is data mining. In VLDB 2007, Wong e...
Virtualization using Xen-based virtual machine environment has yet to permeate the field of high performance computing (HPC). One major requirement for HPC is the availability of ...
In this work, using a game-theoretic approach, costsensitive mechanisms that lead to reliable Internet-based computing are designed. In particular, we consider Internet-based mast...
Abstract— Structured peer-to-peer systems have grown enormously because of their scalability, efficiency and reliability. These systems assign a unique identifier to each user ...
Sunam Ryu, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Traynor, Pa...