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2009
15 years 4 months ago
CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System
We develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including net...
Alexandros Batsakis, Randal C. Burns, Arkady Kanev...
BILDMED
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Interfacing Global and Local CBIR Systems for Medical Image Retrieval
Abstract. Contemporary picture archiving and communication systems are limited in managing large and varied image collections, because content-based image retrieval (CBIR) methods ...
Sameer Antani, Thomas Martin Deserno, L. Rodney Lo...
FAST
2007
15 years 7 months ago
A Five-Year Study of File-System Metadata
For five years, we collected annual snapshots of filesystem metadata from over 60,000 Windows PC file systems in a large corporation. In this paper, we use these snapshots to s...
Nitin Agrawal, William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur...
OSDI
2004
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Energy-Efficiency and Storage Flexibility in the Blue File System
A fundamental vision driving pervasive computing research is access to personal and shared data anywhere at anytime. In many ways, this vision is close to being realized. Wireless...
Edmund B. Nightingale, Jason Flinn
ICDCSW
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
A MANET Based Emergency Communication and Information System for Catastrophic Natural Disasters
When stricken by a catastrophic natural disaster, emergency rescue operation is very critical to many lives. Many people trapped in the disastrous areas under collapsed buildings ...
Yao-Nan Lien, Hung-Chin Jang, Tzu-Chieh Tsai