—Cloud computing is enabling groups of academic collaborators, groups of business partners, etc., to come together in an ad-hoc manner. This paper focuses on the group-based data...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...
This paper presents improved approximation algorithms for the problem of multiprocessor scheduling under uncertainty (SUU), in which the execution of each job may fail probabilist...
Christopher Y. Crutchfield, Zoran Dzunic, Jeremy T...
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are a new implementation architecture in which a controller machine manages a distributed collection of switches, by instructing them to install ...
Christopher Monsanto, Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, D...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental building block of the Internet. Today, the performance of more and more applications depend not only on the responsiveness of DNS, bu...