Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability, and further service level agreements need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please ...
David Wiese, Gennadi Rabinovitch, Michael Reichert...
Abstract--Reducing energy consumption for high end computing can bring various benefits such as, reduce operating costs, increase system reliability, and environment respect. This ...
Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, Jai Dayal, Fugan...
This paper addresses the issue of provisioning end-to-end bandwidth guarantees across multiple Autonomous Systems (ASes). We first review a cascaded model for negotiating and est...
Kin-Hon Ho, Michael P. Howarth, Ning Wang, George ...
In this paper, we discuss recent work on buffer sizing in the context of an ISP's need to offer and guarantee competitive Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to its customers. Si...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Albert G. Greenberg, W...
: Digital piracy is threatening the global multimedia content industry and blindly applied coercive Digital Right Management (DRM) policies do nothing but legitimizing this piracy....