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USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
EmStar: A Software Environment for Developing and Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks
Many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are composed of a mixture of deployed devices with varying capabilities, from extremely constrained 8-bit "Motes" to less...
Lewis Girod, Jeremy Elson, Alberto Cerpa, Thanos S...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event-Driven Servers
Khaled Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox, Will...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Xen and the Art of Repeated Research
Xen is an x86 virtual machine monitor produced by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and released under the GNU General Public License. Performance results comparing ...
Bryan Clark, Todd Deshane, Eli Dow, Stephen Evanch...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Early Experience with an Internet Broadcast System Based on Overlay Multicast
In this paper, we report on experience in building and deploying an operational Internet broadcast system based on Overlay Multicast. In over a year, the system has been providing...
Yang-Hua Chu, Aditya Ganjam, T. S. Eugene Ng, Sanj...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
accept()able Strategies for Improving Web Server Performance
This paper evaluates techniques for improving the performance of three architecturally different web servers. We study strategies for effectively accepting incoming connections un...
Tim Brecht, David Pariag, Louay Gammo
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Monkey See, Monkey Do: A Tool for TCP Tracing and Replaying
The performance of popular Internet Web services is governed by a complex combination of server behavior, network characteristics and client workload
Yu-Chung Cheng, Urs Hölzle, Neal Cardwell, St...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
C-JDBC: Flexible Database Clustering Middleware
Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
Emmanuel Cecchet, Julie Marguerite, Willy Zwaenepo...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Instrumentation of Production Systems
This paper presents DTrace, a new facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems. DTrace features the ability to dynamically instrument both user-level and kernel-leve...
Bryan Cantrill, Michael W. Shapiro, Adam H. Levent...
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
High Performance X Servers in the Kdrive Architecture
The common usage patterns of 2D drivers for the X Window System have changed over time. New extensions such as Render and Composite are creating new demands for 2D rendering which...
Eric Anholt
USENIX
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Multihoming Performance Benefits: An Experimental Evaluation of Practical Enterprise Strategies
Multihoming is increasingly being employed by large enterprises and data centers as a mechanism to extract good performance from their provider connections. Today, multihomed end-...
Aditya Akella, Srinivasan Seshan, Anees Shaikh