The Domain Name System (DNS) is the world’s largest distributed computing system that performs the key function of translating user-friendly domain names to IP addresses through...
We present a new set of metrics for analyzing the interaction between the modules of a large software system. We believe that these metrics will be important to any automatic or s...
The ability to quickly predict the throughput of a TCP transfer between a client and a server, or between peers, has wide application in scientific computing and commercial compu...
As the complexity of computing systems steadily increases, self-managing systems – as Autonomic Computing Systems (ACS) proposed by IBM – are an adequate approach to minimize ...
Open real-time systems provide for co-hosting hard-, soft- and non-real-time applications. Microkernel-based designs in addition allow for these applications to be mutually protec...