Mobile applications increasingly require transaction-like properties, particularly those of recovery. Because there is a lack of abstractions to decompose the machinery of recover...
We describe a methodology that enables the real-time diagnosis of performance problems in complex high-performance distributed systems. The methodology includes tools for generati...
Brian Tierney, William E. Johnston, Brian Crowley,...
To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direc...
Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Mart...
Abstract. In a distributed system, dynamically dividing execution between nodes is essential for service robustness. However, when all of the nodes cannot be equally trusted, and w...
Telecommunication networks process verylarge numbers of events in real time. In this environment, database applications demand both high throughput (at reasonable costs), and pred...
Jerry Baulier, Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abra...