New network technology continues to improve both the latency and bandwidth of communication in computer clusters. The fastest high-speed networks approach or exceed the I/O bus ba...
Ken Yocum, Jeffrey S. Chase, Andrew J. Gallatin, A...
Abstract—RFID promises to revolutionize the inventory management in large warehouses, retail stores, hospitals, transportation systems, etc. Periodically reading the IDs of the t...
This paper presents a set of techniques for providing fine-grained failover of long-running connections across a distributed collection of replica servers, and is especially usefu...
Alex C. Snoeren, David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrish...
Automatically annotating or tagging unlabeled audio files has several applications, such as database organization and recommender systems. We are interested in the case where the...
Gordon Wichern, Makoto Yamada, Harvey D. Thornburg...
Peer-to-peer content distribution systems have been enjoying great popularity, and are now gaining momentum as a means of disseminating video streams over the Internet. In many of...