Autonomic computing is a grand-challenge vision of the future in which computing systems
will manage themselves in accordance with high-level objectives specified by humans. The …

Rising complexity within multi‐tier computing architectures remains an open problem. As
complexity increases, so do the costs associated with operating and maintaining systems …

Recently, many overlay applications have emerged in the Internet. Currently, each of these
applications requires their proprietary functionality support. A general unified framework may …

Although initially proposed as the deployable alternative to Internet protocol multicast, the
application-layer overlay network actually revolutionizes the way network applications can …

Peer-to-peer storage systems assume that their users consume resources in proportion to
their contribution. Unfortunately, users are unlikely to do this without some enforcement …

This paper presents Sharp, a framework for secure distributed resource management in an
Internet-scale computing infrastructure. The cornerstone of Sharp is a construct to represent …

Recently, overlay networks have emerged as a means to enhance end-to-end application
performance and availability. Overlay networks attempt to leverage the inherent redundancy …

Time-varying congestion on Internet paths and failures due to software, hardware, and
configuration errors often disrupt packet delivery on the Internet. Many aproaches to …

Currently, Internet hosting centers and content distribution networks leverage statistical
multiplexing to meet the performance requirements of a number of competing hosted …

The grid is realizing the vision of providing computation as utility: computational jobs can be
scheduled on-demand at grid hosts based on available computational capacity. In this …