Recent demands for storing and querying big data have revealed various shortcomings of
traditional relational database systems. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of a new kind …

Over the Internet today, computing and communications environments are significantly more
complex and chaotic than classical distributed systems, lacking any centralized organization …

We present NetCache, a new key-value store architecture that leverages the power and
flexibility of new-generation programmable switches to handle queries on hot items and …

Coordination services are a fundamental building block of modern cloud systems, providing
critical functionalities like configuration management and distributed locking. The major …

Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability
to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have …

Large-scale peer-to-peer systems face security threats from faulty or hostile remote
computing elements. To resist these threats, many such systems employ redundancy …

We present Tor, a circuit-based low-latency anonymous communication service. This
second-generation Onion Routing system addresses limitations in the original design by …

A fundamental problem that confronts peer-to-peer applications is to efficiently locate the
node that stores a particular data item. This paper presents Chord, a distributed lookup …

This paper presents the design and evaluation of Pastry, a scalable, distributed object
location and routing substrate for wide-area peer-to-peer applications. Pastry performs …

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