To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
A fundamental challenge in improving the file system performance is to design effective block replacement algorithms to minimize buffer cache misses. Despite the well-known int...
In this paper, we present a simulation-based study of BitTorrent. Our results confirm that BitTorrent performs nearoptimally in terms of uplink bandwidth utilization and download...
Ashwin R. Bharambe, Cormac Herley, Venkata N. Padm...