With the proliferation of WiFi technology, many WiFi networks are accessible from vehicles on the road making vehicular WiFi access realistic. However, several challenges exist: l...
Abstract. Optimistic execution techniques are widely used in the field of parallel discrete event simulation. In this paper we discuss the use of optimism as a technique for paral...
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
In a transaction-time temporal object database management system (TODBMS), updating an object creates a new version of the object, but the old version is still accessible. A TODBM...
Modern distributed information systems handle increasingly critical data and computation, but there is no systematic way to assess whether a given part of the system can be entrus...
Partha Pratim Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atighe...