In this paper, we present a Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB) policy for problems characterized by a highly irregular search tree, whereby no reliable workload prediction is available....
—Scheduling techniques are often deployed at the network edge to maximize the quality of the video communication while satisfying a given constraint on the maximum high priority ...
Abstract. With the huge increase in the volume of information available in digital form and the increasing diversity of Web applications, the need for efficient, reliable, informat...
Abstract. We describe and evaluate the Running Time Advisor (RTA), a system that can predict the running time of a compute-bound task on a typical shared, unreserved commodity host...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...