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HOTDEP
2008
15 years 8 months ago
2008
Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
192
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NSDI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
2007
Networked systems are often evaluated on overlay testbeds such as PlanetLab and emulation testbeds such as Emulab. Emulation testbeds give users great control over the host and ne...
152
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HOTDEP
2008
15 years 8 months ago
2008
Device drivers today lack two important properties: guaranteed safety and cross-platform portability. We present an approach to incrementally achieving these properties in drivers...
170
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NSDI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
2007
Many contemporary approaches for speeding up large file transfers attempt to download chunks of a data object from multiple sources. Systems such as BitTorrent quickly locate sou...
165
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NSDI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
2007
WiFi-based Long Distance (WiLD) networks with links as long as 50–100 km have the potential to provide connectivity at substantially lower costs than traditional approaches. How...