User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
A fair contract signing protocol allows two potentially mistrusted parities to exchange their commitments (i.e., digital signatures) to an agreed contract over the Internet in a f...
Data center networks encode locality and topology information into their server and switch addresses for performance and routing purposes. For this reason, the traditional address...
Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zh...
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...