The Web relies on the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve the hostname portion of URLs into IP addresses. This marriage-of-convenience enabled the Web's meteoric rise, but th...
The cost and complexity of administration of large systems has come to dominate their total cost of ownership. Stateless and soft-state components, such as Web servers or network ...
Virtual machine monitors (VMMs) have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, since VMMs can help to solve difficult systems problems like migration, fault tolerance, code sandboxing, ...
Andrew Whitaker, Richard S. Cox, Marianne Shaw, St...
Network protocols must work. The effects of protocol specification or implementation errors range from reduced performance, to security breaches, to bringing down entire networks....
This paper explores the model of providing a common overlay structure management layer to assist the construction of large-scale wide-area Internet services. To this end, we propo...