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...
Data de-duplication has become a commodity component in dataintensive systems and it is required that these systems provide high reliability comparable to others. Unfortunately, b...
Chuanyi Liu, Yu Gu, Linchun Sun, Bin Yan, Dongshen...
Load balancing is often used to ensure that nodes in a distributed systems are equally loaded. In this paper, we show that for real-time systems, load balancing is not desirable. ...
The availability is often used to measure how well a system can provide the service continuously. The measures of availability for a single computer and for multiple computers are ...
Kang Chen, Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Meiming She...
Internet radio and television stations require significant bandwidth to support delivery of high quality audio and video streams to a large number of receivers. IP multicast is a...