High availability is a key requirement in the design and development of heterogeneous systems, where processors operate at different speeds and are not continuously available for ...
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
There is a growing demand for provisioning of different levels of quality of service (QoS) on Web servers to meet changing resource availability and satisfy different client requi...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, Ganesh Godavari, C. Edward Ch...
—The great diffusion of Mobile Web-enabled devices allows the implementation of novel personalization, location and adaptation services that will place unprecedented strains on t...
Abstract—Interactive TCP applications, such as Telnet and the Web, are particularly sensitive to network congestion. Indeed, congestion-induced queuing and packet loss can be a s...