Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Recent advances in virtualization technologies have made it feasible to host multiple virtual machines (VMs) in the same physical host and even the same CPU core, with fair share ...
Cong Xu, Sahan Gamage, Pawan N. Rao, Ardalan Kanga...
We describe our first efforts to develop a set of off-the-shelf hardware components that ordinary people could connect to build a simple but useful class of embedded systems. The ...
Susan Cotterell, Frank Vahid, Walid A. Najjar, Har...
In this paper we present an approach to analyzing the social behaviors that occur in a typical office space. We describe a system consisting of over 200 motion sensors connected ...
Christopher Richard Wren, Yuri A. Ivanov, Ishwinde...
Processing large data streams is now a major topic in data management. The data involved can be truly massive, and the required analyses complex. In a stream of sequential events ...