Client-side file caching has long been recognized as a file system enhancement to reduce the amount of data transfer between application processes and I/O servers. However, cach...
Wei-keng Liao, Avery Ching, Kenin Coloma, Alok N. ...
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...
Himabindu Pucha, David G. Andersen, Michael Kamins...
Basic approaches to computer lab management range along a spectrum from total lockdown of lab computers to total freedom. Total lockdown, which can be implemented with system perm...
This paper describes the operational characteristics of “CompTorrent”, a general purpose distributed computing platform that provides a low entry cost to creating new distribut...
The use of context as an input is one of the major characteristics of Ubiquitous Computing systems. This paper looks into the structural and the systematic features of context in ...