In this paper we investigate the effect of three time-triggered system rejuvenation policies on service availability using a queuing model. The model is formulated as an extended ...
High availability is a critical feature for service clusters and cloud computing, and is often considered more valuable than performance. One commonly used technique to enhance the...
Today organizations and business enterprises of all sizes need to deal with unprecedented amounts of digital information, creating challenging demands for mass storage and on-dema...
Sangeetha Seshadri, Ling Liu, Brian F. Cooper, Law...
Chain replication is a new approach to coordinating clusters of fail-stop storage servers. The approach is intended for supporting large-scale storage services that exhibit high t...
Many mobile applications rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide position and location information. However, there are many problems with using GPS in urban environm...