Search Results - "Birman, K."

EPOCHS: a platform for agent-based electric power and communication simulation built from commercial off-the-shelf components by Hopkinson, K., Xiaoru Wang, Giovanini, R., Thorp, J., Birman, K., Coury, D.

“…This paper reports on the development and subsequent use of the electric power and communication synchronizing simulator (EPOCHS), a distributed simulation…”
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The untrustworthy Web services revolution by Birman, K.

“…The commoditization of the Web is bringing tremendous benefits, but also some serious risks. The benefits are obvious: Web-based technologies are becoming a…”
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Can Web services scale up? by Birman, K.

“…In the past, only major Internet players such as Amazon, eBay, and Google were interested in deploying large-scale Web services. However, this is changing…”
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Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web by Ostrowski, K., Birman, K., Dolev, D.

“…Distributed computing has lagged behind the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop in recent years. Programmers still generally treat the Web…”
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Adaptive Gravitational Gossip: A Gossip-Based Communication Protocol with User-Selectable Rates by Hopkinson, K., Jenkins, K., Birman, K., Thorp, J., Toussaint, G., Parashar, M.

“…Gossip-based communication protocols are attractive in cases where absolute delivery guarantees are not required due to their scalability, low overhead, and…”
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Slicing Distributed Systems by Gramoli, V., Vigfusson, Y., Birman, K., Kermarrec, A.-M., van Renesse, R.

“…Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are popular for tasks such as collaborative download, VoIP telephony, and backup. To maximize performance in the face of…”
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Edge Mashups for Service-Oriented Collaboration by Birman, K., Cantwell, J., Freedman, D., Qi Huang, Nikolov, P., Ostrowski, K.

“…This paper presents the Live Distributed Objects platform that makes it possible to combine hosted content with P2P protocols in a single object-oriented…”
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The league of SuperNets by Birman, K.

“…The author proposes a major effort to transform the Internet into a league of SuperNets. Doing so offers the promise of revolutionary new business…”
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Adding high availability and autonomic behavior to Web services by Birman, K., van Renesse, R., Vogels, W.

“…Rapid acceptance of the Web Services architecture promises to make it the most widely supported and popular object-oriented architecture to date. One…”
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Technology challenges for virtual overlay networks by Birman, K.P.

“…An emerging generation of mission-critical networked applications is placing demands on the Internet protocol suite that go well beyond the properties they…”
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In computers we trust by Birman, K.

“…Computing systems are finding their way into increasingly sensitive roles and settings and for these and other uses, we need computers we can trust. The author…”
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A review of experiences with reliable multicast by Birman, Kenneth P.

“…By understanding how real users have employed reliable multicast in real distributed systems, we can develop insight concerning the degree to which this…”
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An agent-based current differential relay for use with a utility intranet by Coury, D.V., Thorp, J.S., Hopkinson, K.M., Birman, K.P.

“…This paper proposes an agent-based current differential relay for use with a communication network. Agents are software processes capable of searching for…”
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Anonymous Gossip: improving multicast reliability in mobile ad-hoc networks by Chandra, R., Ramasubramanian, V., Birman, K.

“…In recent years, a number of applications of ad-hoc networks have been proposed. Many of them are based on the availability of a robust and reliable multicast…”
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Integrated Approach to Data Center Power Management by Ganesh, L., Weatherspoon, H., Marian, T., Birman, K.

“…Energy accounts for a significant fraction of the operational costs of a data center, and data center operators are increasingly interested in moving toward…”
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The next-generation Internet: unsafe at any speed? by Birman, K.P.

“…Speed alone will not make future Internet applications secure. I propose a new networking isolation capability, termed a virtual overlay network (VON). Such…”
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An Agent-Based Current Differential Relay for Use with a Utility Intranet by Coury, D. V., Thorp, J. S., Hopkinson, K. M., Birman, K. P.

“…This paper proposes an agent-based current differential relay for use with a communication network. Agents are software processes capable of searching for…”
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The design and architecture of the Microsoft Cluster Service-a practical approach to high-availability and scalability by Vogels, W., Dumitriu, D., Birman, K., Gamache, R., Massa, M., Short, R., Vert, J., Barrera, J., Gray, J.

“…Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) extends the Windows NT operating system to support high-availability services. The goal is to offer an execution environment…”
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Overcoming CAP with Consistent Soft-State Replication by Birman, K., Freedman, D., Qi Huang, Dowell, P.

“…New data-consistency models make it possible for cloud computing developers to replicate soft state without encountering the limitations associated with the…”
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Decentralized Schemes for Size Estimation in Large and Dynamic Groups by Kostoulas, D., Psaltoulis, D., Indranil Gupta, Birman, K., Al Demers

“…Large-scale and dynamically changing distributed systems such as the grid, peer-to-peer overlays, etc., need to collect several kinds of global statistics in a…”
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