Threats of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have been increasing day-by-day due
to rapid development of computer networks and associated infrastructure, and millions of …

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

Recent years have witnessed growing consolidation of web operations. For example, the
majority of web traffic now originates from a few organizations, and even micro-websites …

We propose a new type of saliency—context-aware saliency—which aims at detecting the
image regions that represent the scene. This definition differs from previous definitions …

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 …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

Cloud computing is emerging as a new paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. In
order to utilize the power of cloud computing completely, we need an efficient task …

Designing distributed computing systems is a complex process requiring a solid
understanding of the design problems and the theoretical and practical aspects of their …

In an edge storage system, popular data can be stored on edge servers to enable low-
latency data retrieval for nearby users. Suffering from constrained storage capacities, edge …

Data deduplication is an essential and critical component of backup systems. Essential,
because it reduces storage space requirements, and critical, because the performance of …