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...
We propose and evaluate the concept of a semantically-smart disk system (SDS). As opposed to a traditional “smart” disk, an SDS has detailed knowledge of how the file system ...
Knuth’s buddy system is an attractive algorithm for managing storage allocation, and it can be made to operate in real-time. At some point, storage-management systems must eithe...
Most of today’s distributed computing systems in the field do not support the migration of execution entities among computing nodes during runtime. The relatively static associa...
Abstract. Enhanced RFID tag technology especially in the UHF frequency range provides extended functionality like high operating range and sensing and monitoring capabilities. Such...
Alex Janek, Christian Steger, Josef Preishuber-Pfl...