Most supercomputers nowadays are based on large clusters, which call for sophisticated, scalable, and decentralized metadata processing techniques. From the perspective of maximizing metadata throughput, an ideal metadata distribution policy should automatically balance the namespace locality and even distribution without manual intervention. None of existing metadata distribution schemes is designed to make such a balance. […]
Monitoring the Impact of P2P Users on a Broadband Operator’s Network over Time
Since their emergence peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have been generating a considerable fraction of the over all transferred bandwidth in broadband networks. Residential broadband service has been moving from one geared towards technology enthusiasts and early adopters to a commodity for a large fraction of households. Thus, the question whether P2P is still the dominant application […]
Decomposing Workload Bursts for Efficient Storage Resource Management
The growing popularity of hosted storage services and shared storage infrastructure in data centers is driving the recent interest in resource management and QoS in storage systems. The bursty nature of storage workloads raises significant performance and provisioning challenges, leading to increased resource requirements, management costs, and energy consumption. We present a novel workload shaping […]
A Distributed Algorithm for Finding All Best Swap Edges of a Minimum-Diameter Spanning Tree
Communication in networks suffers if a link fails. When the links are edges of a tree that has been chosen from an underlying graph of all possible links, a broken link even disconnects the network. Most often, the link is restored rapidly. A good policy to deal with this sort of transient link failures is […]
Attribute-Based Access Control with Efficient Revocation in Data Outsourcing Systems
Some of the most challenging issues in data outsourcing scenario are the enforcement of authorization policies and the support of policy updates. Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption is a promising cryptographic solution to these issues for enforcing access control policies defined by a data owner on outsourced data. However, the problem of applying the attribute-based encryption in […]
Predictable High-Performance Computing Using Feedback Control and Admission Control
Historically, batch scheduling has dominated the management of High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources. One of the most significant limitations using this approach is an inability to predict both the start time and end time of jobs. Although existing researches such as resource reservation and queue-time prediction partially address this issue, a more predictable HPC system is […]
Optimizing resource conflicts in workflow management systems
Resource allocation and scheduling are fundamental issues in a Workflow Management System (WfMS). Effective resource management in WfMS should examine resource allocation together with task scheduling since these problems impose mutual constraints. Optimization of the one factor is subject to the other constraints and vice versa. Thus, an ideal algorithm should take into account not […]
delay optimal opportunistic scheduling and approximations
This paper considers the design of multiuser opportunistic packet schedulers for users sharing a time-varying wireless channel from performance and robustness points of view. For a simplified model falling in the classical Markov decision process framework, we numerically compute and characterize mean-delay-optimal scheduling policies. The computed policies exhibit radial sum-rate monotonicity: As users’ queues grow […]
A Privacy-Preserving Location Monitoring System for Wireless Sensor Networks
Monitoring personal locations with a potentially untrusted server poses privacy threats to the monitored individuals. To this end, we propose a privacy-preserving location monitoring system for wireless sensor networks. In our system, we design two in-network location anonymization algorithms, namely, resource and quality-aware algorithms, that aim to enable the system to provide high-quality location monitoring […]
Efficient Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Path-Constrained Mobile Sinks
Recent work shows that sink mobility along a constrained path can improve the energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks. However, due to the path constraint, a mobile sink with constant speed has limited communication time to collect data from the sensor nodes deployed randomly. This poses significant challenges in simultaneously improving the amount of data […]
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