Preserving one's uniquely customized computing environment as one moves to different locations is an enduring challenge in mobile computing. We examine why this capability is...
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael Kozuch, Casey Helf...
Grid computing and cluster computing platforms are becoming the primary development platforms for pervasive computing. The primary problem associated with both computational grids...
Avinash Shankar, Daniel Saffioti, Ian Piper, Ashwi...
Congestion remains one of the main obstacles to the Quality of Service (QoS) on the Internet. We think that a good solution to Internet congestion should optimally combine congesti...
Arjan Durresi, Leonard Barolli, Raj Jain, Makoto T...
Applications increasingly make use of the distributed platform that the World Wide Web provides ? be it as a Software-as-a-Service such as salesforce.com, an application infrastru...
Heiko Ludwig, Jim Laredo, Kamal Bhattacharya, Lili...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges as they need to process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents. To deal with this heavy workloa...