USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
The open-source rsync utility reduces the time and bandwidth required to update a file across a network. Rsync uses an interactive protocol that detects changes in a file and se...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
Trust management credentials directly authorize actions, rather than divide the authorization task into authentication and access control. Unlike traditional credentials, which bi...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
We present Active Spam Killer (ASK), a program that attempts to validate unknown senders before allowing delivery of their message. Validation occurs by means of a challenge reply...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
Performance was an important issue in the development of X from the initial protocol design and continues to be important in modern application and extension development. That X i...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
The problem of automatically filtering out spam e-mail using a classifier based on machine learning methods is of great recent interest. This paper gives an introduction to mach...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
Twisted is a high-level networking framework that is built around event-driven asynchronous I/O. It supports TCP, SSL, UDP and other network transports. Twisted supports a wide va...
USENIX
2003
14 years 24 days ago
2003
We present a novel peer-to-peer backup technique that allows computers connected to the Internet to back up their data cooperatively: Each computer has a set of partner computers,...