Data replication is a key technology in distributed systems that enables higher availability
and performance. This article surveys optimistic replication algorithms. They allow replica …

This paper presents MAUI, a system that enables fine-grained energy-aware offload of
mobile code to the infrastructure. Previous approaches to these problems either relied …

Motivated by the prospect of readily available Content Addressable Storage (CAS), we
introduce the concept of file recipes. A file's recipe is a first-class file system object listing …

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 …

Current wireless network power management often substantially degrades performance and
may even increase overall energy usage when used with latency-sensitive applications. We …

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 …

The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing analyzes a broad array of technologies and
concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by …

Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely
distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consists of …

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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 …