Desktop Grids have proved to be a suitable platform for the execution of Bag-of-Tasks applications but, being characterized by a high resource volatility, require the availability ...
Cosimo Anglano, John Brevik, Massimo Canonico, Dan...
Commercial cloud offerings, such as Amazon's EC2, let users allocate compute resources on demand, charging based on reserved time intervals. While this gives great flexibilit...
This paper proposes and evaluates APIs for Inter-Core Time Aggregation Scheduler (IAS), which is a kernel-level thread scheduler to enhance performances of multi-threaded programs ...
Providing continuous on-demand streaming services with VCR functionality over ubiquitous environments is challenging due to the stringent QoS requirements of streaming service as ...
Qifeng Yu, Tianyin Xu, Baoliu Ye, Sanglu Lu, Daoxu...
Abstract— Fueled by the competing DSL and Cable technologies, residential broadband access has seen a significant spread in availability to the point that many users have a choi...