Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...
The ’Distributed Control Lab’ [6] at Hasso-PlattnerInstitute, University of Potsdam allows experimentation with a variety of physical equipment via the web (intra and internet...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) has long been an open security problem of the Internet. Most proposed solutions require the upgrade of routers across the Internet, which is e...
Random walk graph and Markov chain based models are used heavily in many data and system analysis domains, including web, bioinformatics, and queuing. These models enable the desc...