Middleware has been introduced to provide interoperability as well as transparent location of servers in heterogeneous client-server environments. Although such benefits accrue fro...
Client interactions with modern web-accessible network services are typically organized into sessions involving multiple requests that read and write shared application data. Ther...
We study a stochastic network that consists of two servers shared by two classes of jobs. Class 1 jobs require a concurrent occupancy of both servers while class 2 jobs use one se...
— Efficient support of multicast traffic in Storage Area Networks (SANs) enables applications such as remote data replication and distributed multimedia systems, in which a ser...
Andrea Bianco, Paolo Giaccone, Enrico Maria Giraud...
The growth in complexity of modern systems makes it increasingly difficult to extract high-performance. The software stacks for such systems typically consist of multiple layers a...