Suppose a long-running analytical query is executing on a database server and has been allocated a large amount of physical memory. A high-priority task comes in and we need to ru...
Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnat...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
—Network protocols have traditionally been designed using a layered method in part because it is easier to implement some portions of network protocols in software and other port...
Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
A growing number of mobile computing applications are centered around the user’s location. The notion of location is broad, ranging from physical coordinates (latitude/longitude...
Martin Azizyan, Ionut Constandache, Romit Roy Chou...
Constructing logical machines out of collections of physical machines is a well-known technique for improving the robustness and fault tolerance of distributed systems. We present...
Yair Amir, Brian A. Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John La...