Object-based storage offloads some works of file systems to storage devices to improve security, scalability, and performance. Security is a main concern when sharing data over ne...
We design a test methodology to analyze in detail the video quality received at each peer in a peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming system. The metrics that we employ at each peer i...
Structural changes, such as file creation and block allocation, have consistently been identified as file system performance problems in many user environments. We compare several...
Large scale compute clusters continue to grow to ever-increasing proportions. However, as clusters and applications continue to grow, the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) has redu...
Writing a new scheduler and integrating it into an existing OS is a daunting task, requiring the understanding of multiple low-level kernel mechanisms. Indeed, implementing a new ...