Improper evaluation of systems papers may result in the loss or delay in publication of possibly important research. This paper posits that systems research papers may be evaluated in one or more of ...

As computers permeate all aspects of our lives, a wide range of computer systems must achieve high dependability, including availability, reliability, and security. Unfortunately, few current computer ...

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, ...

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

NT is a great file and print server. It also makes a good web, mail, and SQL server. But how does it behave when you attach several hundred disks to a single NT node and run a database application ...

The BSD dump utility has been available in various forms for nearly twenty years. In that time, the format has remained fairly constant, and the utility has been ported to platforms ranging from ...

A storage server for continuous media is usually based on disk arrays like RAID. However, this kind of architecture does not provide any flexibility and scalability which are essential for storage ...

Figure 2: Simplified model of wildfire worm propagation. Figure 2 illustrates the propagation dynamics of wildfire worms. Three access points A, B and C provide wireless coverage to end users, e.g.

In this section, we present the architecture and implementation of a distributed hash table DDS. Figure 2 illustrates our hash table's architecture, which consists of the following components: Client: ...

Traditionally, uniprocessors have not been able to saturate the network with the introduction of each new Ethernet bandwidth generation, but exponential gains in uniprocessor performance have always ...

Network performance is increasingly important in all types of modern computer systems. Furthermore, architectural trends are pushing future microprocessors away from uniprocessor designs and toward ...

To compare connection parallelism in the same framework as message parallelism, FreeBSD 7 was modified to support two variants of connection-based parallelism (ConnP) that differ in how they serialize ...