To improve performance and reduce power, processor designers employ advances that shrink feature sizes, lower voltage levels, reduce noise margins, and increase clock rates. Howev...
George A. Reis, Jonathan Chang, Neil Vachharajani,...
Digital audio devices have been changing music entertainment environment. Those devices are bundled with music jukebox software, such as Apple’s iTunes, Sony’s CONNECT player....
Owing to the increase in both heterogeneity and complexity in today’s networking systems, the need arises for an architecture for network-based services that provides flexibilit...
Christos Chrysoulas, Evangelos Haleplidis, Robert ...
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Increasing demands upon embedded systems for higher level services like networking, user interfaces and file system management, are driving growth in fully-featured operating syst...