Carriers increasingly differentiate their wide-area connectivity offerings by means of customized services, such as virtual private networks (VPN) with Quality of Service (QoS) g...
We consider a system of compute and storage resources geographically distributed over a large number of locations connected via a wide-area network. By distributing the resources,...
Moritz Steiner, Bob Gaglianello Gaglianello, Vijay...
We consider a set of clients collaborating through an online service provider that is subject to attacks, and hence y trusted by the clients. We introduce the abstraction of a fai...
In a distributed file system built on network attached storage, client computers access data directly from shared storage, rather than submitting I/O requests through a server. W...
Randal C. Burns, Robert M. Rees, Darrell D. E. Lon...
—In multiservice networks, admission control (AC) is a convenient means of assuring high quality communications by safeguarding enough availability for customer traffic. This ca...