Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...
Online microblogging services, as exemplified by Twitter, have become immensely popular during the latest years. However, current microblogging systems severely suffer from perfor...
Computing history has shown that open, multi-layer hardware and software stacks encourage innovation and bring costs down. Only recently this trend is meeting the networking world...
Marcelo Ribeiro Nascimento, Christian Esteve Rothe...
Privacy--the protection of information from unauthorized disclosure--is increasingly scarce on the Internet, and yet increasingly important as every user becomes both a content co...
Tomas Isdal, Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy,...
In information retrieval (IR), research aiming to reduce the cost of retrieval system evaluations has been conducted along two lines: (i) the evaluation of IR systems with reduced...