The performance of computer systems varies over the course of their execution. A system may perform well during some parts of its execution and poorly during others. To understand...
Todd Mytkowicz, Peter F. Sweeney, Matthias Hauswir...
—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...
Storage systems manage quotas to ensure that no one user can use more than their share of storage, and that each user gets the storage they need. This is difficult for large, dis...
Kristal T. Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Richard A....
A task that suspends itself to wait for an I/O completion or to wait for an event from another node in distributed environments is called an I/O blocking task. In conventional har...
RFID middleware systems collect and filter RFID streaming data gathered continuously by numerous readers to process requests from applications. These requests are called continuou...