Achieving high performance for concurrent applications on modern multiprocessors remains challenging. Many programmers avoid locking to improve performance, while others replace l...
Thomas E. Hart, Paul E. McKenney, Angela Demke Bro...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) have been used in a variety of applications, but most DHTs so far have opted to solve lookups with multiple hops, which sacrifices performance in o...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
World Wide Web is one of the most important applications on the Internet. Net surfers can browse the Web pages by tracing the links embedded in the hypertexts. However, one will be...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...