This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
Enabling high performance, persistent mobile computing has recently become a very active research area. The widespread popularity of mobile computing devices, such as laptops, han...
We are developing Virtuoso, a system for distributed computing using virtual machines (VMs). Virtuoso must be able to mix batch and interactive VMs on the same physical hardware, ...
As we continue to evolve into large-scale parallel systems, many of them employing hundreds of computing engines to take on mission-critical roles, it is crucial to design those s...
Yanyong Zhang, Mark S. Squillante, Anand Sivasubra...
In portable applications, the energy consumed by OS and application tasks primarily comes from DC battery source, which is limited and imposes an upper bound to the amount of time...