The last several years have seen a rapid increase in smart phone use. Android offers an open-source software platform on smart phones, that includes a Linux-based kernel, Java app...
Hyosu Kim, Minsub Lee, Wookhyun Han, Kilho Lee, In...
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Making effective use of computational Grids requires scheduling Grid applications onto resources that best match them. Resource-related state (e.g., load, availability, and locati...
Ronak Desai, Sameer Tilak, Bhavin Gandhi, Michael ...
Recently, flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprise server storage has not been studied. P...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Austin Donnelly...