Abstract. As data volumes processed by large-scale distributed dataintensive applications grow at high-speed, an increasing I/O pressure is put on the underlying storage service, w...
This paper explores the feasibility of a cost-efficient storage architecture that offers the reliability and access performance characteristics of a high-end system. This architec...
IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
We introduce MoB, an infrastructure for collaborative wide-area wireless data services. MoB proposes to change the current model of data services in the following fundamental ways...
Abstract. Location is the most essential presence information for mobile users. In this paper, we present an improved time-based clustering technique for extracting significant lo...