Firewall policies can be extremely complex and difficult to maintain, especially on networks with more than a few hundred machines. The difficulty of configuring a firewall proper...
Mechanism design (MD) has recently become a very popular approach in the design of distributed systems of autonomous agents. A key assumption required for the application of MD is...
Abstract—We propose RoLo (Rotated Logging), a new logging architecture for RAID10 systems for enhanced energy efficiency, performance and reliability. By spreading destaging I/O...
Yinliang Yue, Lei Tian, Hong Jiang, Fang Wang, Dan...
We study the computational power of a distributed system consisting of simple autonomous robots moving on the plane. The robots are endowed with visual perception but do not have ...
In data stream processing systems, Quality of Service (or QoS) requirements, as specified by users, are extremely important. Unlike in a database management system (DBMS), a query...