—In a reconfigurable network, lightpath connections can be dynamically changed to reflect changes in traffic conditions. This paper characterizes the gain in traffic capacity tha...
Communication in cache-coherent distributed shared memory (DSM) often requires invalidating (or writing back) cached copies of a memory block, incurring high overheads. This paper...
Database systems support recovery, providing high database availability. However, database applications may lose work because of a server failure. In particular, if a database serv...
Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet, Thomas Baby, Sanja...
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
The probability of failures in software distributed shared memory (SDSM) increases as the system size grows. This paper introduces a new, efficient message logging technique, call...