We consider a virtual computing environment that provides computational resources on demand to users with multiattribute task descriptions that include a valuation, resource (CPU)...
A critical issue in multicast communication is how to identify multicast groups. In the Internet, multicast addresses and port numbers distinguish multicast groups from each other...
Emad Eldin Mohamed, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, I. Sal...
Reference counting is a widely-used resource management idiom which maintains a count of references to each resource by incrementing the count upon an acquisition, and decrementing...
Michael Emmi, Ranjit Jhala, Eddie Kohler, Rupak Ma...
Much experience has been gained with the protocols and mechanisms needed for discovery and allocation of remote computational resources. However, the preparation of a remote compu...
Resource selection is fundamental to the performance of master/slave applications. In this paper, we address the problem of promoting performance for distributed master/slave appl...