In the coming age of information warfare, information security patterns take on a more offensive than defensive stance [1]. However, most existing security systems remain passive ...
We claim that network services can be transparently added to existing unmodified applications running inside virtual machine environments. Examples of these network services inclu...
In many of today's applications, access to storage constitutes the major cost of processing a user request. Data prefetching has been used to alleviate the storage access lat...
Self-propagating computer worms have been terrorizing the Internet for the last several years. With the increasing density, inter-connectivity and bandwidth of the Internet combin...
Network performance measurement and prediction is one of the most prominent and indispensable components in distributed computing environments. The selection of the most advantage...