To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
Conventional OLTP systems assign each transaction to a worker thread and that thread accesses data, depending on what the transaction dictates. This thread-to-transaction work ass...
—One of the critical challenges for service oriented computing systems is the capability to guarantee scalable and reliable service provision. This paper presents Reliable GeoGri...
Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, Sangeetha Seshadri, Bhuvan B...
We consider the fully distributed Video-on-Demand problem, where n nodes called boxes store a large set of videos and collaborate to serve simultaneously n videos or less between ...
Yacine Boufkhad, Fabien Mathieu, Fabien de Montgol...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...