Doing agile development in a relatively inelastic environment, where policies and procedures are virtually unchangeable, creates an impedance mismatch between the agile team and i...
Energy is increasingly a first-order concern in computer systems. Exploiting energy-accuracy trade-offs is an attractive choice in applications that can tolerate inaccuracies. Re...
Adrian Sampson, Werner Dietl, Emily Fortuna, Danus...
Wi-Fi clients can obtain much better performance at some commercial hotspots than at others. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for users to determine which hotspot access p...
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Da...
Abstract— This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI storage area network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business co...
In this paper we study the soft real-time web cluster architecture needed to support e-commerce and related applications. Our testbed is based on an industry standard, which defin...
Luciano Bertini, Julius C. B. Leite, Daniel Moss&e...