Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Despite impressive advances in file system throughput resulting from technologies such as high-bandwidth networks and disk arrays, file system latency has not improved and in many...
Measurement and estimation of packet loss characteristics are challenging due to the relatively rare occurrence and typically short duration of packet loss episodes. While active ...
Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Nick G. Duffield, Amos...
A good architecture is a necessary condition to guarantee that the expected levels of performance, availability, fault tolerance, and scalability are achieved by the implemented s...
Giovanni Bricconi, Emma Tracanella, Elisabetta Di ...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...