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CCR
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Dynamically scaling applications in the cloud
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Classroom-based assistive technology: collective use of interactive visual schedules by students with autism
vSked is an interactive and collaborative assistive technology for students with autism, combining visual schedules, choice boards, and a token-based reward system into an integra...
Meg Cramer, Sen H. Hirano, Monica Tentori, Michael...
FAST
2011
14 years 10 months ago
A Scheduling Framework That Makes Any Disk Schedulers Non-Work-Conserving Solely Based on Request Characteristics
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...
Yuehai Xu, Song Jiang
VEE
2012
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
SecondSite: disaster tolerance as a service
This paper describes the design and implementation of SecondSite, a cloud-based service for disaster tolerance. SecondSite extends the Remus virtualization-based high availability...
Shriram Rajagopalan, Brendan Cully, Ryan O'Connor,...
WONS
2012
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Can P2P swarm loading improve the robustness of 6LoWPAN data transfer?
—The recent arrival of 6LoWPAN, an IPv6 variant for low-power wireless devices, allows for the development of IPbased applications for low-power wireless networks like sensor net...
Marcel Bosling, Torsten Redmann, Jean Tekam, Elias...