In this paper, we take an availability-centric view on quality of service (QoS) and propose a model and mechanisms for studying the effectiveness of realistic replication schemes ...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical part of the Internet’s infrastructure, and is one of the few examples of a robust, highlyscalable, and operational distributed system....
Jeffrey Pang, James Hendricks, Aditya Akella, Robe...
This paper presents the results of a 40-day reliability study on a set of 97 popular Web sites done from an end user’s perspective. Data for the study was acquired by periodical...
Mahesh Kalyanakrishnan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Jaqdi...
Many CSCW projects dealing with individual availability and interruption filtering achieve only limited success. Perhaps this is because designers of such systems have limited evi...
James M. Hudson, Jim Christensen, Wendy A. Kellogg...
Numerical analysis based on uniformisation and statistical techniques based on sampling and simulation are two distinct approaches for transient analysis of stochastic systems. We ...