USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper proposes two mechanisms for reducing the communication-related overheads of Web applications. One mechanism is user-level connection tracking, which allows an applicati...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The open-source rsync utility reduces the time and bandwidth required to update a file across a network. Rsync uses an interactive protocol that detects changes in a file and se...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We propose a new approach for I/O scheduling that performs on-line simulation of the underlying disk. When simulation is integrated within a system, three key challenges must be a...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Trust management credentials directly authorize actions, rather than divide the authorization task into authentication and access control. Unlike traditional credentials, which bi...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We present Active Spam Killer (ASK), a program that attempts to validate unknown senders before allowing delivery of their message. Validation occurs by means of a challenge reply...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Performance was an important issue in the development of X from the initial protocol design and continues to be important in modern application and extension development. That X i...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We present the design and implementation of PLACE, a gray-box library for controlling file layout on top of FFSlike file systems. PLACE exploits its knowledge of FFS layout poli...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The problem of automatically filtering out spam e-mail using a classifier based on machine learning methods is of great recent interest. This paper gives an introduction to mach...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Twisted is a high-level networking framework that is built around event-driven asynchronous I/O. It supports TCP, SSL, UDP and other network transports. Twisted supports a wide va...
USENIX
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We present a novel peer-to-peer backup technique that allows computers connected to the Internet to back up their data cooperatively: Each computer has a set of partner computers,...