Advances in virtualization technology have focused mainly on strengthening the isolation barrier between virtual machines (VMs) that are co-resident within a single physical machi...
— A key advantage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds is providing users on-demand access to resources. However, to provide on-demand access, cloud providers must either...
The Application Service Hosting Platform (ASHP) has recently received tremendous attention from both industry and academia. An ASHP provides a shared highperformance infrastructur...
The increasingly common practice of replicating datasets and using resources as distributed data stores in Grid environments has led to the problem of determining which replica ca...
— We adopt a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communic...