Enterprises may use a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide a streamlined interface to their business processes. To scale up the system, each tier in a composite service ...
It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total r...
James Wen Jun Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He, Ste...
This paper compares the performance of three classes of scheduling algorithms for real-time systems in which jobs may overrun their allocated processor time potentially causing th...
We extend Goldberg’s multi-server information-theoretic private information retrieval (PIR) with a suite of protocols for privacypreserving e-commerce. Our first protocol adds ...
It is well known that optimal server placement is NP-hard. We present an approximate model for the case when both clients and servers are dense, and propose a simple server alloca...