USENIX
2008
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2008
We propose an approach to remote display systems in which the client predicts the screen update events that the server will send and applies them to the screen immediately, thus e...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The performance of receive side TCP processing has traditionally been dominated by the cost of the `per-byte' operations, such as data copying and checksumming. We show that ...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
In many of today's applications, access to storage constitutes the major cost of processing a user request. Data prefetching has been used to alleviate the storage access lat...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Unexpected surges in Web request traffic can exercise server-side resources (e.g., access bandwidth, processing, storage etc.) in undesirable ways. Administrators today do not hav...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Network emulation is valuable largely because of its ability to study applications running on real hosts and "somewhat real" networks. However, conservatively allocating...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Aggressive energy conserving mechanisms can maximize energy efficiency, but often have the negative tradeoff of simultaneously reducing system responsiveness due to the switching ...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Evaluating novel networked protocols and services requires subjecting the target system to realistic Internet conditions. However, there is no common understanding of what is requ...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper describes Mortar, a distributed stream processing platform for building very large queries across federated systems (enterprises, grids, datacenters, testbeds). Nodes i...
USENIX
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Recent popularity of interactive AJAX-based Web 2.0 applications has given rise to a new breed of security threats: JavaScript worms. In this paper we propose Spectator, the first...
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2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide protection and sharing. However, both I/O memory ma...