Unpredictability in COTS-based systems often manifests as occasional instances of uncontrollably-high response times. A particular category of COTS systems, fault-tolerant (FT) mid...
Caches have become invaluable for higher-end architectures to hide, in part, the increasing gap between processor speed and memory access times. While the effect of caches on timi...
— Multi-tier Internet service clusters often contain complex calling dependencies among service components spreading across cluster nodes. Without proper handling, partial failur...
Lingkun Chu, Kai Shen, Hong Tang, Tao Yang, Jingyu...
Recent proliferation of computing devices has brought attention to heterogeneous collaborative systems, where key challenges arise from the resource limitations and disparities. S...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology raises significant privacy issues because it enables tracking of items and people possibly without their knowledge or consent. O...