In the mobile wireless computing environment of the future, a large number of users, equipped with low-powered palmtop machines, will query databases over wireless communication ch...
The inability to perform optimizations based on application-specific information presents a hurdle to the deployment of pervasive LAN file systems across WAN environments. This pa...
An important issue in modern cache designs is bridging the gap between wire and device delays. This warrants the use of more regular and modular structures to mask wire latencies....
We present hoc: a fast, scalable object repository providing programmers with a general storage module. hoc may be used to implement DSMs as well as distributed cache subsystems. h...
Network attached disk storage is characterized by independent network attachment and embedded intelligence. For Internet applications, it provides the key functionality of geograp...