We present Virtual High-resolution Time (VHT), a powerproportional time-keeping service that offers a baseline power draw of a low-speed clock (e.g. 32 kHz crystal), but provides...
— Service Composition is a promising technology for providing on-demand services in dynamic and loosely coupled peerto-peer (P2P) networks. Because of system dynamics, such as th...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...
: Geographic information (e.g., locations, networks, and nearest neighbors) are unique and different from other aspatial attributes (e.g., population, sales, or income). It is a ch...
Control of large distributed cloud-based services is a challenging problem. The Distributed Rate Limiting (DRL) paradigm was recently proposed as a mechanism for tackling this pro...