Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

Conventional wisdom holds that storage is not a big contributor to application performance
on mobile devices. Flash storage (the type most commonly used today) draws little power …

Benchmarking is critical when evaluating performance, but is especially difficult for file and
storage systems. Complex interactions between I/O devices, caches, kernel daemons, and …

Various approaches for virtual appliance management are described. In one approach a
virtual appliance repository stores one or more virtual appliances and is coupled to the host …

The Internet suspend/resume model of mobile computing cuts the tight binding between PC
state and PC hardware. By layering a virtual machine on distributed storage, ISR lets the VM …

This lecture provides an introduction to cyber foraging, a topic that lies at the intersection of
mobile and cloud computing. Cyber foraging dynamically augments the computing …

This invention relates generally to computer system man agement. More particularly, it
relates to a cache-based system management architecture useful for automatic Soft ware …

Given a sufficiently good network connection, even a handheld computer can run extremely
resource-intensive applications by executing the demanding portions on a remote server. At …

This paper presents the design and implementation of DOT, a flexible architecture for data
transfer. This architecture separates content negotiation from the data transfer itself …

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 …