In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
Managing operating systems and campus-supported software can be a daunting challenge. Many colleges and universities handle these challenges by using disk imaging software to crea...
Buffer caches in operating systems keep active file blocks in memory to reduce disk accesses. Related studies have been focused on how to minimize buffer misses and the caused pe...
Foundation is a preservation system for users' personal, digital artifacts. Foundation preserves all of a user's data and its dependencies--fonts, programs, plugins, ker...
This paper presents dsync, a file transfer system that can dynamically adapt to a wide variety of environments. While many transfer systems work well in their specialized context,...
Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Anders...