Characterizing mobility or contact patterns in a campus environment is of interest for a variety of reasons. Existing studies of these patterns can be classified into two basic a...
Fault-tolerant protocols, asynchronous and synchronous alike, make stationary fault assumptions: only a fraction f of the total n nodes may fail. Whilst a synchronous protocol is ...
Paulo Sousa, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Paulo Verí...
We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
Abstract. We consider two types of buffering policies that are used in network switches supporting Quality of Service (QoS). In the FIFO type, packets must be transmitted in the or...
Alexander Kesselman, Zvi Lotker, Yishay Mansour, B...
As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...