—The number of real-world applications that require QoS guarantees is constantly increasing and they often follow the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging paradigm, which provid...
Shuo Guo, Kyriakos Karenos, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei,...
An important part of a distributed system design is the workload sharing among the processors. This includes partitioningthe arriving jobs into tasks that can be executed in paral...
Connection Admission Control (CAC) is an important function in a computer network that supports Quality of Service (QoS). The function of CAC is to decide whether a new connection...
We present a novel mechanism, called meeting point thread characterization, to dynamically detect critical threads in a parallel region. We define the critical thread the one with...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...