The proliferation of database-driven web sites (or web-databases) has brought upon a plethora of applications where both Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Data (QoD) are of ...
This research is motivated by emerging, real-world wireless sensor network applications for monitoring and control. We examine the benefits and costs of caching data for such appli...
David J. Yates, Erich M. Nahum, Jim Kurose, Prasha...
During concurrent I/O workloads, sequential access to one I/O stream can be interrupted by accesses to other streams in the system. Frequent switching between multiple sequential ...
Chuanpeng Li, Kai Shen, Athanasios E. Papathanasio...
ion Flow Control for Standard OS Abstractions Maxwell Krohn Alexander Yip Micah Brodsky Natan Cliffer M. Frans Kaashoek Eddie Kohler† Robert Morris MIT CSAIL †UCLA http://flum...
Maxwell N. Krohn, Alexander Yip, Micah Z. Brodsky,...
In this paper we shall introduce a new electronic payment concept based on the popular direct debit payment model, entitled periodical payments. The direct debit model currently i...