We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
We consider distributed applications that continuously stream data across the network, where data needs to be aggregated and processed to produce a 'useful' stream of up...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Gre...
One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
In this paper we present 411, a password distribution system for high performance environments that provides security and scalability. We show that existing solutions such as NIS ...
Federico D. Sacerdoti, Mason J. Katz, Philip M. Pa...