We observe that an effect of "disk resource sharing" of multi-copy movie traffic has great impact on the blocking performance of a video-on-demand system. This observatio...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
Abstract. Because Remote Procedure Calls do not compose efficiently, designers of distributed object systems use Data Transfer and Remote Fac?ade patterns to create large-granulari...
Ali Ibrahim, Yang Jiao, Eli Tilevich, William R. C...
Translating data and data access operations between applications and databases is a longstanding data management problem. We present a novel approach to this problem, in which the...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
Users rarely consider running network file systems over slow or wide-area networks, as the performance would be unacceptable and the bandwidth consumption too high. Nonetheless, ...
Athicha Muthitacharoen, Benjie Chen, David Mazi&eg...