Abstract--Objectives of the dissertation are impacts of Peerto-Peer (P2P) traffic on Internet core networks as well as novel approaches for using P2P technology in Internet access ...
Abstract--Nodes within existing P2P networks typically exchange periodic keep-alive messages in order to maintain network connections between neighbours. Keep-alive messages serve ...
New architectures have recently been proposed and deployed to support end-to-end advance reservation of network resources. These architectures rely on the use a centralized schedul...
Transactional memory is an alternative programming model for managing contention in accessing shared in-memory data objects. Distributed transactional memory (TM) promises to alle...
Thermal management is critical for clusters because of the increasing power consumption of modern processors, compact server architectures and growing server density in data center...