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Efficient VM Placement With Multiple Deterministic and Stochastic Resources in Data Centers
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Virtual Machines (VMs) may significantly improve the efficiency of data center infrastructure by sharing resources of physical servers. This benefit relies on an efficient VM placement scheme to...
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Depth-First Worst-Fit Search Based Multipath Routing for Data Center Networks
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Modern Data Center Networks (DCNs) often use multi-rooted topologies, which offer multipath capability, for increased bandwidth and fault tolerance. However, traditional routing algorithms for the...
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The Design of a Community Science Cloud: The Open Science Data Cloud Perspective
November 6, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors describe the design, and implementation of the Open Science Data Cloud, or OSDC. The goal of the OSDC is to provide petabyte-scale data cloud infrastructure and related...
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Packet-Mode Asynchronous Scheduling Algorithm for Partially Buffered Crossbar Switches
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Traditional crossbar switches use centralized scheduling algorithms with high time complexity. In contrast, buffered crossbar switches are capable of distributed scheduling due to crosspoint...
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On Enabling Real-Time Large-Scale Network Simulation Into the GENI Environment: The PrimoGENI Approach
March 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, many research efforts have focused on building experimentation platforms where structural changes to future Internet can be implemented and tested. GENI, instantiated by its...
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Paravirtualization for Scientific Computing: Performance Analysis and Prediction
July 15, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Resource virtualization technologies have recently increased in popularity. The emergence of cloud computing, which requires provisioning isolated environments on shared resources, is one reason...
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Estimating Application Cache Requirement for Provisioning Caches in Virtualized Systems
May 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Miss Rate Curves (MRCs) are a fundamental concept in determining the impact of caches on an application's performance. In the authors' research, they use MRCs to provision caches for applications...
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Truly Non-Blocking Writes
May 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Writing data within user or operating system memory often encounters the classic read-before-write problem whereby the page written to must first be read from the backing store, effectively...
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Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets
August 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Accurately characterizing the resource usage of an application at various levels in the memory hierarchy has been a long-standing research problem. Existing characterization studies are either...
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Energy Proportionality for Storage: Impact and Feasibility
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper highlights the growing importance of storage energy consumption in a typical data center, and asserts that storage energy research should drive towards a vision of energy...
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An Information-Theoretical View of Network-Aware Malware Attacks
September 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates three aspects: a network vulnerability as the non-uniform vulnerable-host distribution, threats, i.e., intelligent malwares that exploit such a vulnerability, and defense,...
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Ontology-Aware Search on XML-Based Electronic Medical Records
February 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based, having as a...
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Challenges and Directions in Formalizing the Semantics of Modeling Languages
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Developing software from models is a growing practice and there exist many model-based tools (e.g., editors, interpreters, debuggers, and simulators) for supporting model-driven engineering. Even...
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Dynamic Block-Level Cache Management for Cloud Computing Systems
May 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Block-level distributed storage systems (e.g., SAN, iSCSI) are commonly used in the emerging cloud computing systems to provide Virtual Machine (VM) storage. They allow fast VM migration across...
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Using Lightweight Virtual Machines to Run High Performance Computing Applications: The Case of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
September 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
There are many scientific applications that have high performance computing demands. Such demands are traditionally supported by cluster- or Grid-based systems. Cloud computing, which has...
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Towards Scalable Application Checkpointing With Parallel File System Delegation
June 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The ever-increasing scale of modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems presents a variety of challenges to the Parallel File System (PFS) based storage in these systems. The scalability of...
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Performance Modeling of Virtual Machine Live Migration
May 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
System virtualization is becoming pervasive and it is enabling important new computing diagrams such as cloud computing. Live Virtual Machine (VM) migration is a unique capability of system...
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Cooperative Virtual Machine Scheduling on Multi-Core Multi-Threading Systems - A Feasibility Study
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
Virtual Machines (VMs) and Multi-core Multi-threading Micro-Processors (MMMP) are two emerging technologies in software and hardware, respectively, and they are expected to become pervasive on...
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A Metamodel for Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances
May 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors present their work on modeling Distributed Ensembles of Virtual Appliances (DEVAs) on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. Designing solutions on IaaS providers require a good...
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On the Performance of a Hybrid Network Traffic Model
April 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study a hybrid network traffic model that combines a fluid-based analytical model using ordinary differential equations with the packet-oriented discrete-event simulation. The hybrid...
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On Energy-Efficient and Low-Latency Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), many applications are delay-sensitive, such as target tracking and forest fire detection, which necessitate a design that can provide delay guarantee. On the...
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Mobility-Assisted Location Management for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
January 4, 2008, 12:00am PST
Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) are gaining importance for inter-vehicle communication, because they allow for the local communication between vehicles without any infrastructure, configuration...
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Towards a Business Continuity Information Network for Rapid Disaster Recovery
April 23, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery have gained immense importance in the wake of recent man and nature inflicted calamities such as the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 and...
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Voluntary Disclosure And Its Impact On Share Prices: Evidence From The UK Biotechnology Sector
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The earnings of high-R&D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less value relevant information to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample of firms from the...
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A Self-Configuring Communication Virtual Machine
April 13, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today's communication-based applications are mostly crafted in a stovepipe development paradigm, which is inflexible to be used by various domain-specific applications and costly in the...
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Anatomy of a Real-Time Intrusion Prevention System
May 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Host intrusion prevention systems for both servers and end-hosts must address the dual challenges of accuracy and performance. Researchers have mostly focused on addressing the former challenge,...
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Web Services Reliability Patterns
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Due to the widespread use of web services by enterprises, the need to ensure their reliability has become crucial. There are several standards that intend to govern how web services are designed...
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Virtual Environments: Easy Modeling of Interdependent Virtual Appliances in the Cloud
August 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the ideas for modeling groups of interdependent virtual machines in the cloud. The authors call these models virtual environments. This abstraction is built on top of virtual...
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A Distributed Multimedia Data Management Over the Grid
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a distributed multimedia data management architecture, which can efficiently store and retrieve multimedia data across several nodes of a Grid environment. The main components...
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Explaining and Reformulating Authority Flow Queries
December 11, 2007, 12:00am PST
Authority flow is an effective ranking mechanism for answering queries on a broad class of data. Systems have been developed to apply this principle on the Web (PageRank and topic sensitive...
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Challenges and Solutions for Handoff Issues in 4G Wireless Systems an Overview
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As the wireless communications technologies evolve dramatically, the recent research focus has shifted to the development of Furth-Generation (4G) mobile systems. Instead of developing a new...
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STORM: An Approach to Database Storage Management in Data Center Environments
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Database storage management at data centers is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects across physical storage devices in a...
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Toward Scalable Routing Experiments with Real-Time Network Simulation
March 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The ability to conduct accurate and realistic experiments is critical in furthering the research and development of network routing protocols. Existing framework for routing experiments is found...
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Real-Time Experiments of Interdomain Network Routing Attacks
August 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Authors of this paper use a real-time routing experiment platform to conduct attack experiments on a national-level interdomain routing system. The real-time routing experiment platform integrates...
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Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment
November 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Performance models provide the ability to predict application performance for a given set of hardware resources and are used for capacity planning and resource management. Traditional performance...
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Space Division Multiple Access Scheme Based on Uniform Latin Squares for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 3, 2007, 12:00am PST
A Uniform Latin square of order k = m2 is an k x k square matrix that consists of k symbols from 0 to k-1 such that no symbol appears more than once in any row or in any column. This property is...
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Ontology-Aware Search on XML-Based Electronic Medical Records
February 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
As the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) becomes more widespread, so does the need for effective information discovery on them. Recently proposed EMR standards are XML-based, having as a...
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An Information-Theoretical View of Network-Aware Malware Attacks
September 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates three aspects: a network vulnerability as the non-uniform vulnerable-host distribution, threats, i.e., intelligent malwares that exploit such a vulnerability, and defense,...
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