Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are characterized by direct access between peer computers, rather than through a centralized server. File sharing is the dominant P2P application on the...
Cooperative checkpointing uses global knowledge of the state and health of the machine to improve performance and reliability by dynamically deciding when to skip checkpoint reque...
Noncontiguous data access is a very common access pattern in many scientific applications. Using POSIX I/O to access many pieces of noncontiguous data segments will generate a lot...
Conventional network management is based on SNMP and often run in a centralized manner. Although the centralized management approach gives network administrators a flexibility of ...
As the network technology has been developed, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) such as Internet2, KOREN, KREONET2 and etc has been deployed to support bandwidth of Giga bps. And,...