We have created ZapC, a novel system for transparent coordinated checkpoint-restart of distributed network applications on commodity clusters. ZapC provides a thin virtualization ...
Partition testing is a well-known software testing technique. This paper shows that partition testing strategies are relatively ineffective in detecting faults related to small sh...
Traditional DMA requires the operating system to perform many tasks to initiate a transfer, with overhead on the order of hundreds or thousands of CPU instructions. This paper des...
Matthias A. Blumrich, Cezary Dubnicki, Edward W. F...
The last fifteen years has seen a vast proliferation of middleboxes to solve all manner of persistent limitations in the Internet protocol suite. Examples include firewalls, NATs,...
Colin Dixon, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Thomas E. Ander...
Random peer selection is used by numerous P2P applications; examples include application-level multicast, unstructured file sharing, and network location mapping. In most of thes...