Management of virtual machines (VMs) on a large scale remains a significant challenge today. We lack general and vendor-independent quantitative criteria/metrics by which to desc...
We consider the problem of broadcasting multiple variable-bit-rate (VBR) video streams from a base station to many mobile devices over a wireless network, so that: (i) perceived q...
Performance of Web servers is critical to the success of many corporations and organizations. However, very few results have been published that quantitatively study the server be...
This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
Instruction Set Simulation (ISS) is widely used in system evaluation and software development for embedded processors. Despite the significant advancements in the ISS technology,...
Stefan Kraemer, Lei Gao, Jan Weinstock, Rainer Leu...