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USITS
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Anypoint: Extensible Transport Switching on the Edge
Anypoint is a new model for one-to-many communication with ensemble sites—aggregations of end nodes that appear to the external Internet as a unified site. Policies for routing...
Ken Yocum, Darrell C. Anderson, Jeffrey S. Chase, ...
USITS
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Adaptive Overload Control for Busy Internet Servers
As Internet services become more popular and pervasive, a critical problem that arises is managing the performance of services under extreme overload. This paper presents a set of...
Matt Welsh, David E. Culler
USITS
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Mayday: Distributed Filtering for Internet Services
Mayday is an architecture that combines overlay networks with lightweight packet filtering to defend against denial of service attacks. The overlay nodes perform client authentic...
David G. Andersen
USITS
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Using Fault Injection and Modeling to Evaluate the Performability of Cluster-Based Services
We propose a two-phase methodology for quantifying the performability (performance and availability) of cluster-based Internet services. In the first phase, evaluators use a fault...
Kiran Nagaraja, Xiaoyan Li, Ricardo Bianchini, Ric...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Currentcy: A Unifying Abstraction for Expressing Energy Management Policies
Heng Zeng, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Alvin R. Lebeck,...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Multiprocessor Support for Event-Driven Programs
This paper presents a new asynchronous programming library (libasync-smp) that allows event-driven applications to take advantage of multiprocessors by running code for event hand...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Alexander Yip, Frank Dabek, Ro...
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Checkpoints of GUI-based Applications
We describe a new system, called guievict, that enables the graphical user interface (GUI) of any application to be transparently migrated to or replicated on another display with...
Victor C. Zandy, Barton P. Miller
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
NCryptfs: A Secure and Convenient Cryptographic File System
Often, increased security comes at the expense of user convenience, performance, or compatibility with other systems. The right level of security depends on specific site and use...
Charles P. Wright, Michael C. Martino, Erez Zadok
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
xstroke: Full-screen Gesture Recognition for X
Gesture recognition is a common method of text input on handheld and other pen-based computing devices. Xstroke is a full-screen gesture recognition program for the X Window Syste...
Carl D. Worth
USENIX
2003
14 years 27 days ago
The TrustedBSD MAC Framework: Extensible Kernel Access Control for FreeBSD 5.0
We explore the requirements, design, and implementation of the TrustedBSD MAC Framework. The TrustedBSD MAC Framework, integrated into FreeBSD 5.0, provides a flexible framework ...
Robert Watson, Wayne Morrison, Chris Vance, Brian ...