Load balance is a critical issue in distributed systems, such as server grids. In this paper, we propose a Balanced Load Queue (BLQ) model, which combines the queuing theory and hy...
In many distributed computing systems that are prone to either induced or spontaneous node failures, the number of available computing resources is dynamically changing in a rando...
Sagar Dhakal, Majeed M. Hayat, Jorge E. Pezoa, Cha...
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
With the continuous advances in optical communications technology, the link transmission speed of Internet backbone has been increasing rapidly. This in turn demands more powerful...
Dong Lin, Yue Zhang 0006, Chengchen Hu, Bin Liu, X...
—MapReduce has emerged as a popular tool for distributed and scalable processing of massive data sets and is increasingly being used in e-science applications. Unfortunately, the...
Benjamin Gufler, Nikolaus Augsten, Angelika Reiser...