Previous research has addressed the scalability and availability issues associated with the construction of cluster-based network services. This paper studies the clustering of re...
Kai Shen, Tao Yang, Lingkun Chu, JoAnne Holliday, ...
The boundary between the network edge and the front-end servers of the data center is blurring. Appliance vendors are flooding the market with new capabilities, while switch/route...
Hemal V. Shah, Dave B. Minturn, Annie Foong, Gary ...
This paper presents a set of techniques for providing fine-grained failover of long-running connections across a distributed collection of replica servers, and is especially usefu...
Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrish...
The usage and service options of a pubic network generally differ from a private (enterprise or home) network and consequently, the two networks are often configured differently. ...
Puppeteer is a system for adapting component-based applications in mobile environments. Puppeteer takes advantage of the exported interfaces of these applications and the structur...
Measuring the bottleneck link bandwidth along a path is important for understanding the performance of many Internet applications. Existing tools to measure bottleneck bandwidth a...
In this paper we present a prefetch technique, which incorporates a scheme similar to data streaming to minimize the response-lag. Unlike previous all or none techniques, we propo...
The primary use of the Internet is content distribution -- the delivery of web pages, audio, and video to client applications -- yet the Internet was never architected for scalabl...
Ubiquitous access to sophisticated internet services from diverse end devices across heterogeneous networks requires the injection of additional functionality into the network to ...