Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved to overcome the inherent limitations of the
Internet in terms of user perceived Quality of Service (QoS) when accessing Web content. A …

One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Cloud Computing: Theory and Practice, Third Edition provides students and IT professionals
with an in-depth analysis of the cloud from the ground up. After an introduction to network …

CoMon is an evolving, mostly-scalable monitoring system for PlanetLab that has the goal of
presenting environment-tailored information for both the administrators and users of the …

In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of iPlane, a scalable
service providing accurate predictions of Internet path performance for emerging overlay …

So far virtual machine (VM) migration has focused on transferring the run-time memory state
of the VMs in local area networks (LAN). However, for wide-area network (WAN) migration it …

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coMMunicaTions of The acM 81 in performing them for terabyte or larger datasets (increasingly …

Overlay networks are widely used to deploy functionality at edge nodes without changing
network routers. Each node in an overlay network maintains connections with a number of …

As Web sites move from relatively static displays of simple pages to rich media applications
with heavy client-side interaction, the nature of the resulting Web traffic changes as well …

Today's cloud-based services integrate globally distributed resources into seamless
computing platforms. Provisioning and accounting for the resource usage of these Internet …