Abstract—Complex software programs are mostly characterized by phase behavior and runtime distributions. Due to the dynamism of the two characteristics, it is not efficient to m...
—Online storage systems that provide versatile and convenient platforms for content distribution have attracted significant attention over the Internet. To guarantee adequate le...
We present Badumna Network Suite, a network engine for Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) applications. MMO applications such as World of Warcraft and Second Life use client-serve...
In the classic minimum makespan scheduling problem, we are given an input sequence of jobs with processing times. A scheduling algorithm has to assign the jobs to m parallel machi...
Consider a distributed network with nodes arranged in a tree, and each node having a local value. We consider the problem of aggregating values (e.g., summing values) from all nod...
C. Greg Plaxton, Mitul Tiwari, Praveen Yalagandula