Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
Generic database replication algorithms do not scale linearly in throughput as all update, deletion and insertion (UDI) queries must be applied to every database replica. The thro...
erse approaches at all levels of abstraction starting from the physical level up to the system level. Experience shows that a highlevel method may have a larger impact since the de...
—One key adaptation mechanism often deployed in networking and computing systems is dynamic load balancing. The goal from employing dynamic load balancers is to ensure that the o...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
Research on TCP performance relies either on simulation programs, which run on a single machine, or on the use of real testbeds, where different machines represent different netwo...
Carlo Caini, Rosario Firrincieli, Renzo Davoli, Da...