It is becoming increasingly common to construct network services using redundant resources geographically distributed across the Internet. Content Distribution Networks are a prim...
Software distributed shared memory (DSM) systems have successfully provided the illusion of shared memory on distributed memory machines. However, most software DSM systems use th...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Robert Stets, Nikos Hardavellas...
Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...
— Peer-peer networking has recently emerged as a new paradigm for building distributed networked applications. In this paper we develop simple mathematical models to explore and ...
Zihui Ge, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Sharad Jaiswal, Ja...