While overall bandwidth in the internet has grown rapidly over the last few years, and an increasing number of clients enjoy broadband connectivity, many others still access the i...
- Mobile agents have the ability to migrate through heterogeneous networks and execute at remote hosts. This ability can be exploited to improve the performance of agent based appl...
We consider a data-structural problem motivated by version control of a hierarchical directory structure in a system like Subversion. The model is that directories and files can b...
In the last decade, file sharing systems have generally been dominated by P2P solutions. Whereas e-mail and HTTP have been the killer apps of the earlier Internet, a large percent...
Burstiness and temporal dependence in service processes are often found in multi-tier architectures and storage devices and must be captured accurately in capacity planning models...