Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
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Testingthe performance scalabilityof parallelprograms can be a time consuming task, involving many performance runs for different computer configurations, processor numbers, and p...
Allen D. Malony, Vassilis Mertsiotakis, Andreas Qu...
Compressing protocol headers has traditionally been an attractive way of conserving bandwidth over low-speed links, including those in wireless systems. However, despite the growt...
Jeremy Lilley, Jason Yang, Hari Balakrishnan, Srin...
Distributed applications tend to have a complex design due to issues such as concurrency, synchronization and communication. Researchers in the past have proposed abstractions to ...
Generating good, production-quality plans is an essential element in transforming planners from research tools into real-world applications, but one that has been frequently overl...