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CSCW
2004
ACM
14 years 4 days ago
Field studies of computer system administrators: analysis of system management tools and practices
Computer system administrators are the unsung heroes of the information age, working behind the scenes to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the computer infrastructure that un...
Rob Barrett, Eser Kandogan, Paul P. Maglio, Eben M...
TRIDENTCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 days ago
A Geography-Aware Scalable Community Wireless Network Test Bed
Wireless mesh networks have increasingly become an object of interest in recent years as a strong alternative to purely wired infrastructure networks and purely mobile wireless ne...
Bow-Nan Cheng, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Max Klein
LCN
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 days ago
MAPNaS: A Lightweight, Locality-Aware Peer-to-Peer Based Name Service for MANETs
Name services for mobile ad hoc networks are essential to discover and bind resources given by their name or URI to a specific network address. As there is no fixed infrastructure...
Thomas Zahn, Jochen H. Schiller
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Failure-Aware Construction and Reconfiguration of Distributed Virtual Machines for High Availability Computing
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Song Fu
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Mementos: system support for long-running computation on RFID-scale devices
Transiently powered computing devices such as RFID tags, kinetic energy harvesters, and smart cards typically rely on programs that complete a task under tight time constraints be...
Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu