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SIGOPS
2010
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Scaling a monitoring infrastructure for the Akamai network
We describe the design of, and experience with, Query, a monitoring system that supports the Akamai EdgePlatform. Query is a foundation of Akamai’s approach to administering its...
Thomas Repantis, Jeff Cohen, Scott Smith, Joel Wei...
JIRS
2010
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Designing Decentralized Controllers for Distributed-Air-Jet MEMS-Based Micromanipulators by Reinforcement Learning
Distributed-air-jet MEMS-based systems have been proposed to manipulate small parts with high velocities and without any friction problems. The control of such distributed systems ...
Laëtitia Matignon, Guillaume J. Laurent, Nadi...
JSS
2008
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Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed real-time systems based on UML models using genetic algorithms
This report presents a model-driven, stress test methodology aimed at increasing chances of discovering faults related to network traffic in Distributed Real-Time Systems (DRTS). T...
Vahid Garousi, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Concept and Prototype for a Real-Time Enabled Publish/Subscribe System
—Distributed computing systems often strive to decouple their communicating components (threads on a single node, or nodes in a network) from each other with respect to time, spa...
Matthias Andree, Alexander Gebel, Holger Karl
CEC
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
A binary Particle Swarm Optimization approach to fault diagnosis in parallel and distributed systems
— The efficient diagnosis of hardware and software faults in parallel and distributed systems remains a challenge in today’s most prolific decentralized environments. System-...
Rafael Falcón, Marcio Almeida, Amiya Nayak
SAC
2008
ACM
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Total order broadcast on pervasive systems
Total Order Broadcast protocols are important tools to ensure coherence across distributed systems. Contrarily to classical distributed systems, pervasive systems bring important ...
Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Yo...
SAC
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Preserving coordination properties when transforming concurrent system components
Complexity in concurrent or distributed systems can be managed by dividing component into smaller components. However, such transformations change the coordination behaviour betwe...
Gudmund Grov, Robert F. Pointon, Greg Michaelson, ...
SP
2002
IEEE
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Dynamic load balancing of SAMR applications on distributed systems
Dynamic load balancing(DLB) for parallel systems has been studied extensively; however, DLB for distributed systems is relatively new. To efficiently utilize computing resources p...
Zhiling Lan, Valerie E. Taylor, Greg Bryan
CLUSTER
1999
IEEE
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Simulative performance analysis of gossip failure detection for scalable distributed systems
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Mark W. Burns, Alan D. George, Bradley A. Wallace
CACM
1999
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Putting OO Distributed Programming to Work
stractions underlying distributed computing. We attempted to keep our preaims at an abstract and general level. In this column, we make those claims more concrete. More precisely, ...
Pascal Felber, Rachid Guerraoui, Mohamed Fayad