Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
Although it has long been realised that ACID transactions by themselves are not adequate for structuring long-lived applications and much research work has been done on developing...
Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santos...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue to affect the availability of critical systems on the Internet. The existing DoS problem is enough to merit significant research dedicated...
Alex Wun, Alex King Yeung Cheung, Hans-Arno Jacobs...
In the near future, we will see dramatic changes in computing and networking hardware. A large number of devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, even small household appliances) will become c...