The cost of power and its associated delivery are becoming significant factors in the total
expenditure of large-scale data centers. Numerous techniques have been proposed to …

Collaboration-based distributed systems are becoming more prevalent these days. Two
such systems are Community Clouds, where a large number of anonymous private users …

In the presence of a long-latency instruction as a L2 miss, the issue queue (IQ) may fill with
instructions dependent on the L2 miss; consequently, the IQ will not expose instruction-level …

The Internet has made it possible to exchange information more rapidly on a global scale. A
natural succeeding step was the creation of Social Networks where anyone in the world can …

The goal of this thesis is bringing closer together the game theoretic approach of creating
incentives with the requirements and properties of P2P systems. Briefly, we detail the P2P …

The use of cloud computing and backend services have become a rising necessity. With
new technologies and the rise of serverless computing, users have seen an ease on …

A natural succeeding process for the Internet was to create Social Networks (eg Facebook,
among others), where anyone in the World can share their experiences, knowledge and …

The current multi-channel P2P video streaming architectures incur performance problems
including:(i) A low Quality of Service (QoS) in unpopular channels with few viewers;(ii) The …

A new class of users is emerging in parallel programming area, having different
requirements from the traditional high performance computing users, since most projects …

Energy has been emerged as a first-class computing resource in modern systems. The trend
has primarily led to the strong focus on reducing the energy consumption of data centers …