Amazon. com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and Simple
Queue Service (SQS) offer enterprise-class computing, storage and coordination facilities to …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

The complexity of modern software systems has grown enormously in the past years with
users always demanding for new features and better quality of service. Besides, software is …

Systems using capabilities to provide preferential service to selected flows have been
proposed as a defense against large-scale network denial-of-service attacks. While these …

With the increasing functionality and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures are
inevitable. While numerous models and algorithms for dealing with failures exist, the lack of …

Edge computing services are exposed to infrastructural failures due to geographical
dispersion, ad hoc deployment, and rudimentary support systems. Two unique …

An increased demand for privacy in Internet communications has resulted in privacy-centric
enhancements to the Domain Name System (DNS), including the use of Transport Layer …

The performance and operational characteristics of the DNS protocol are of deep interest to
the research and network operations community. In this paper, we present measurement …

Internet anycast depends on inter-domain routing to direct clients to their" closest" sites.
Using data collected from a root DNS server for over a year (400M+ queries/day from 100+ …

The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) is a frequent target of Distributed Denial-of-
Service (DDoS) attacks, but such attacks have had very different outcomes---some attacks …