End-to-end congestion control algorithms in TCP are designed for a highly co-operative environment with the assumption that the end hosts voluntarily participate in it and obey th...
Large-scale cluster-based Internet services often host partitioned datasets to provide incremental scalability. The aggregation of results produced from multiple partitions is a f...
Virtualization is often used in cloud computing platforms for its several advantages in efficiently managing resources. However, virtualization raises certain additional challeng...
Aman Kansal, Feng Zhao, Jie Liu, Nupur Kothari, Ar...
Stream-based overlay networks (SBONs) are one approach to implementing large-scale stream processing systems. A fundamental consideration in an SBON is that of service placement, ...
Peter R. Pietzuch, Jeffrey Shneidman, Jonathan Led...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...