Abstract--The cloud computing model aims to make largescale data-intensive computing affordable even for users with limited financial resources, that cannot invest into expensive i...
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...
Motion capture using wireless inertial measurement units (IMUs) has many advantages over other techniques. Achieving accurate tracking with IMUs presents a processing challenge, e...
Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modu...