In stand-alone databases, the two functions of ordering the transaction commits and making the effects of transactions durable are generally performed in one action, namely in the...
Sameh Elnikety, Steven G. Dropsho, Fernando Pedone
Video-on-demand over IP (VOD) is one of the best-known examples of “next-generation” Internet applications cited as a goal by networking and multimedia researchers. Without em...
Hongliang Yu, Dongdong Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Weimin ...
—Restoring data operations after a disaster is a daunting task: how should recovery be performed to minimize data loss and application downtime? Administrators are under consider...
As sophisticated enterprise applications move to the Web, some advanced user experiences become difficult to migrate due to prohibitively high computation, memory, and bandwidth r...
Daniel Coffman, Danny Soroker, Chandra Narayanaswa...
Developing countries face significant challenges in network access, making even simple network tasks unpleasant. Many standard techniques—caching and predictive prefetching— ...