— In many networked applications, independent caching agents cooperate by servicing each other’s miss streams, without revealing the operational details of the caching mechanis...
Simple in-network data aggregation (or fusion) techniques for sensor networks have been the focus of several recent research efforts, but they are insufficient to support advance...
Rajnish Kumar, Matthew Wolenetz, Bikash Agarwalla,...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a fully distributed directory service for Farsite, a logically centralized file system that is physically implemented on a...
We propose a new form of software transactional memory (STM) designed to support dynamic-sized data structures, and we describe a novel non-blocking implementation. The non-blocki...
Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, Will...
In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...