One of the objectives of ooDBMSs is to use type-speci c methods for manipulating objects, in order to maintain the consistency of the database. This is, however, little help for t...
Sensor network nodes exhibit characteristics of both embedded systems and general-purpose systems. They must use little energy and be robust to environmental conditions, while als...
Chih-Chieh Han, Ram Kumar, Roy Shea, Eddie Kohler,...
Three experimental environments traditionally support network and distributed systems research: network emulators, network simulators, and live networks. The continued use of mult...
Brian White, Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Robert Ri...
This paper shows how to quickly move the state of a running computer across a network, including the state in its disks, memory, CPU registers, and I/O devices. We call this state...
Constantine P. Sapuntzakis, Ramesh Chandra, Ben Pf...
Process migration has been used to perform specialized tasks, such as load sharing and checkpoint/restarting long running applications. Implementation typically consists of modifi...