Many modern systems exploit data redundancy to improve efficiency. These systems split data into chunks, generate identifiers for each of them, and compare the identifiers among ot...
Kanat Tangwongsan, Himabindu Pucha, David G. Ander...
In modern systems, developers are often unable to modify the underlying operating system. To build services in such an environment, we advocate the use of gray-box techniques. Whe...
— Traffic shaping is a well-known technique in the area of networking and is proven to reduce global buffer requirements and end-to-end delays in networked systems. Due to these...
Ernesto Wandeler, Alexander Maxiaguine, Lothar Thi...
The Direct Access File System (DAFS) is a distributed file system built on top of direct-access transports (DAT). Direct-access transports are characterized by using remote direct...
Alexandra Fedorova, Margo I. Seltzer, Kostas Magou...
This paper describes a methodology that could be used by a utility to estimate the actual cost of congestion on its transmission system using limited, non-state estimator data. Th...