Abstract—Resource sharing on the Internet is becoming increasingly pervasive. Recently, there is growing interest in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer and grid, with effor...
Left unchecked, the fundamental drive to increase peak performance using tens of thousands of power hungry components will lead to intolerable operating costs and failure rates. H...
Static DHT topologies influence important features of such DHTs such as scalability, communication load balancing, routing efficiency and fault tolerance. Nevertheless, it is co...
Effective caching in Domain Name System (DNS) is critical to its performance and scalability. Existing DNS only supports weak cache consistency by using the Time-To-Live (TTL) mec...
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...