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SIROCCO
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Sharpness: A Tight Condition for Scalability
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...
Augustin Chaintreau
ECOOP
1993
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Language Framework for Multi-Object Coordination
Abstract. We have developed language support for the expression of multiobject coordination. In our language, coordination patterns can be speci ed abstractly, independent of the p...
Svend Frølund, Gul Agha
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A pull-based e-mail architecture
Conventional e-mail systems are prone to problems that impact their scalability and dependability. E-mail systems operate following a "push-based" approach: the sender s...
Edson Kageyama, Carlos Maziero, Altair Olivo Santi...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The case for active device drivers
We revisit the device-driver architecture supported by the majority of operating systems, where a driver is a passive object that does not have its own thread of control and is on...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Yanjin Zhu, Gernot Heiser
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
VUPoints: collaborative sensing and video recording through mobile phones
Mobile phones are becoming a convergent platform for sensing, computation, and communication. This paper envisions VUPoints, a collaborative sensing and video-recording system tha...
Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury