Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
DNS is one of the most actively used distributed databases on earth, accessed by millions of people every day to transparently convert host names into IP addresses and vice versa....
Abstract. The peer sampling service is a middleware service that provides random samples from a large decentralized network to support gossip-based applications such as multicast, ...
System-level virtualization has been a research topic since the 70’s but regained popularity during the past few years because of the availability of efficient solution such as...
Over the last twenty years the interfaces for accessing persistent storage within a computer system have remained essentially unchanged. Simply put, seek, read and write have de...
Xiangyong Ouyang, David W. Nellans, Robert Wipfel,...