DuraCap is a solar-powered energy harvesting system that stores harvested energy in supercapacitors and is voltage-compatible with lithium-ion batteries. The use of supercapacitor...
Tor, a distributed Internet anonymizing system, relies on volunteers who run dedicated relays. Other than altruism, these volunteers have no incentive to run relays, causing a lar...
Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last,...
Daniel Turner, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, ...
Parallel computing on volatile distributed resources requires schedulers that consider job and resource characteristics. We study unconventional computing environments containing ...
Brent Rood, Nathan Gnanasambandam, Michael J. Lewi...
For low-delay streaming of pre-encoded video over lossy networks, fast recovery from decoding errors typically involves use of frequent intra-coded frames, which incurs high bandw...