Voice over IP (VoIP) and Instant Messaging (IM) systems to date have either followed a client-server model or have required the use of clients that do not follow any VoIP or IM st...
Advances in networking and content delivery systems are enabling new challenging provisioning scenarios where a growing number of users access Video on Demand (VoD), possibly whil...
Virtual machine distributed computing greatly simplifies the use of widespread computing resources by lowering the abstraction, benefiting both resource providers and users. Tow...
Ananth I. Sundararaj, Ashish Gupta, Peter A. Dinda
Kimberley enables rapid software provisioning of fixed infrastructure for transient use by a mobile device. It uses virtual machine (VM) technology, but avoids the performance cha...
Adam Wolbach, Jan Harkes, Srinivas Chellappa, Maha...
OceanStore is an Internet-scale, persistent data store designed for incremental scalability, secure sharing, and long-term durability. Pond is the OceanStore prototype; it contain...
Sean C. Rhea, Patrick R. Eaton, Dennis Geels, Haki...