Abstract— This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI storage area network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business co...
Virtual Machine (VM) fork is a new cloud computing abstraction that instantaneously clones a VM into multiple replicas running on different hosts. All replicas share the same init...
Abstract-- It is expected from a Future Internet that a multitude of networks will coexist and complement each other. Such environment allows to run specialized networks possibly p...
Web Services emerge as a new paradigm for distributed computing. Model checking is an important verification method to ensure the trustworthiness of composite WS. abstraction and...
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although cl...