Distributed multimedia applications will be an important part of tomorrow's application mix and require appropriate operating system (OS) support. Neither hard real-time solu...
Abstract. We present a framework to extend the concept of type systems in programming languages to capture the dynamic interaction in component-based design, such as the communicat...
Continuously running systems require kernel software updates applied to them without downtime. Facilitating fast reboots, or delaying an update may not be a suitable solution in m...
Abstract. In small-world networks, each peer is connected to its closest neighbors in the network topology, as well as to additional long-range contact(s), also called shortcut(s)....
Abstract. Users need know nothing of the internals of distributed applications that are performing well. However, when performance flags or fails, a depiction of system behavior f...