While inherent resource redundancies in distributed applications facilitate gracefully degradable services, methods to enhance their dependability may have subtle, yet significan...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, William H. Sanders, Savio ...
Considerable research has focused on the problem of scheduling dynamically arriving independent parallel jobs on a given set of resources. There has also been some recent work in ...
Mohammad Islam, Pavan Balaji, P. Sadayappan, Dhaba...
Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to cost-effectively provision a managed and differentiated networ...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a pervasive computing framework, named Physicalnet. Essentially, Physicalnet is a generic paradigm for managing and programmi...
Pascal Vicaire, Zhiheng Xie, Enamul Hoque, John A....
Currently, researchers designing and implementing largescale overlay services employ disparate techniques at each stage in the production cycle: design, implementation, experiment...
Adolfo Rodriguez, Charles Edwin Killian, Sooraj Bh...