— There has been considerable work done in the study of Web reference streams: sequences of requests for Web objects. In particular, many studies have looked at the locality prop...
Rodrigo C. Fonseca, Virgilio Almeida, Mark Crovell...
Advances in computing and communication technologies have resulted in a wide variety of networked mobile devices that access data over the Internet. In this paper, we argue that s...
One role for workload generation is as a means for understanding how servers and networks respond to variation in load. This enables management and capacity planning based on curr...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
We present the design, correctness, and analysis of SONDe, a simple fully decentralized object deployment algorithm for highly requested systems. Given an object (service or data)...
Vincent Gramoli, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Erwan Le Me...