Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
— Overlay networks provide infrastructures for a large variety of Internet applications, like file sharing, online gaming, and multimedia streaming. However, these networks ofte...
— We present Bristlecone, a programming language for robust software systems. Bristlecone applications have two components: a high-level organization specification that describe...
Abstract— Short TCP flows may suffer significant responsetime performance degradations during network congestion. Unfortunately, this creates an incentive for misbehavior by cl...
— One of the critical challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. One well-known method in economics for increasing th...