This paper investigates methods to locate system resources, such as expensive hardware or software modules, to provide the most effective cost / performance tradeoffs in a torus p...
—Utilizing the skewed popularity distribution in P2P systems, common in Gnutella and KazaA like P2P applications, we propose an optimal resource (replica or link) placement strat...
Weixiong Rao, Lei Chen 0002, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Guor...
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
Abstract. The configuration of network resources greatly impacts the communication overhead for data intensive tasks and constitutes a critical problem in the design and maintenan...