Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts stro...
Ryan Johnson, Radu Stoica, Anastasia Ailamaki, Tod...
Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software inf...
The Horus system supports a communication architecture ats protocols as instances of an abstract data type. This approach encourages developers to partition complex protocols into...
Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, Roy Friedm...
To execute a shared memory program efficiently, we have to manage memory consistency with low overheads, and have to utilize communication bandwidth of the platform as much as pos...
The performance of IP networks depends on a wide variety of dynamic conditions. Traffic shifts, equipment failures, planned maintenance, and topology changes in other parts of th...