Latency is increasingly becoming a performance bottleneck for Internet Protocol (IP)
networks, but historically, networks have been designed with aims of maximizing throughput …

Interactive services often have large-scale parallel implementations. To deliver fast
responses, the median and tail latencies of a service's components must be low. In this …

As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity," system noise" is increasingly
becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP nodes run …

In the last years, there has been a considerable interest in using the Linux operating system
in real-time systems, especially in control systems. The simple and elegant design of Linux …

This paper describes the design and implementation of a high performance packet replay
tool called TCPivo. TCPivo is implemented on commodity hardware using widely available …

Replaying traces is a time-honored method for benchmarking, stress-testing, and debugging
systems-and more recently-forensic analysis. One benefit to replaying traces is the …

Almost all the up-to-date operating systems support multicore processors and also
distributed systems. The parallel processing is obviously an essential part of any operating …

The use of Non-Distributed Operating Systems is very common and old. Many researchers
feel that this field of research is outmoded, and therefore put their efforts into Distributed …

Devices for the mobile market have to satisfy a set of challenging constraints. In addition to
the classical power, reliability and cost constraints, modern devices often have to be open to …

It is commonly agreed that scheduling mechanisms in general purpose operating systems
do not provide adequate support for modern interactive applications, notably multimedia …