Internet services like the world-wide web and multimedia applications like News- and Video-on-Demand have become very popular over the last years. Due to the large number of users ...
—The problem of finding efficient workload distribution techniques is becoming increasingly important today for heterogeneous distributed systems where the availability of comp...
Vladimir Shestak, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Ma...
Recently, a server-less video-on-demand architecture has been proposed which can completely eliminate costly dedicated video servers and yet is highly scalable and reliable. Due to...
It has been well established that most operating system crashes are due to bugs in device drivers. Because drivers are normally linked into the kernel address space, a buggy drive...
Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Ho...
— A number of large-scale distributed Internet applications could potentially benefit from some level of knowledge about the relative proximity between its participating host no...
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Mark Handley, Richard M. Karp, S...