In this paper we describe Cumulus, a system for efficiently implementing filesystem backups over the Internet. Cumulus is specifically designed under a thin cloud assumption--that...
Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a payment framework that is loosely based on the direct debit payment model. We define such payments as one in which customer...
In many enterprises today, WAN optimizers are being deployed in order to eliminate redundancy in network traffic and reduce WAN access costs. In this paper, we present the design ...
ER ABSTRACTIONS ter service uses several abstractions— including resource, resource dependencies, and resource groups—to simplify both the cluster service itself and user-visib...
Transit services are currently facing several challenges in the United States and around the
world. For many reasons, among which the fluctuations in gas prices and the state of t...