In current sensor networks, sensor nodes are capable of not only measuring real world phenomena, but also storing, processing and transferring these measurements. Many data dissem...
Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...
We describe the design of a runtime system for a fine-grained concurrent object-oriented (actor) language and its performance. The runtime system provides considerable flexibility...
In this paper, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 we consider how to exploit multiple disks to improve the performance of B-tree ...
Internet end-systems employ various adaptation mechanisms that enable them to respond adequately to legitimate requests in overload situations. Today, these mechanisms are incorpo...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...