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EUROSYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Parallax: virtual disks for virtual machines
Parallax is a distributed storage system that uses virtualization to provide storage facilities specifically for virtual environments. The system employs a novel architecture in ...
Dutch T. Meyer, Gitika Aggarwal, Brendan Cully, Ge...
MOBICOM
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A comparison of mechanisms for improving mobile IP handoff latency for end-to-end TCP
Handoff latency results in packet losses and severe End-to-End TCP performance degradation as TCP, perceiving these losses as congestion, causes source throttling or retransmissio...
Robert Hsieh, Aruna Seneviratne
SIGCOMM
1997
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems
We investigate a novel multicast technique, called Skyscraper Broadcasting (SB), for video-on-demand applications. We discuss the data fragmentation technique, the broadcasting st...
Kien A. Hua, Simon Sheu
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Towards a Theory of Value Latency for IT Investments
Multiple studies in the information systems (IS) literature recognize that information technology (IT) investments may not yield immediate returns. Nevertheless, there has been a ...
Kim Huat Goh, Robert J. Kauffman
ICFP
1999
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Atomic Heap Transactions and Fine-grain Interrupts
Languages such as Java, ML, Scheme, and Haskell provide automatic storage management, that is, garbage collection. The two fundamental operations performed on a garbagecollected h...
Olin Shivers, James W. Clark, Roland McGrath