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SECON
2010
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Cloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a s...
Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prasha...
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
16 years 9 days ago
Policy-based access control for weakly consistent replication
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
TCP Nice: A Mechanism for Background Transfers
Many distributed applications can make use of large background transfers ? transfers of data that humans are not waiting for ? to improve availability, reliability, latency or con...
Arun Venkataramani, Ravi Kokku, Michael Dahlin
SIGOPSE
2004
ACM
16 years 19 days ago
QoS for internet services: done right
In this paper we argue that the best approach to providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to current Internet services is to use admission control and traffic shaping techni...
Josep M. Blanquer, Antoni Batchelli, Klaus E. Scha...
ICDCS
2003
IEEE
16 years 15 days ago
Decision-Support Workload Characteristics on a Clustered Database Server from the OS Perspective
A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
Yanyong Zhang, Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramani...