Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is the most widely used model for advanced access
control deployed in diverse enterprises of all sizes. RBAC critically depends on defining …

Genomic medicine attempts to build individualized strategies for diagnostic or therapeutic
decision-making by utilizing patients' genomic information. Big Data analytics uncovers …

We present the design of a novel performance-oriented serverless computing platform
implemented in. NET, deployed in Microsoft Azure, and utilizing Windows containers as …

Video cameras are pervasively deployed for security and smart city scenarios, with millions
of them in large cities worldwide. Achieving the potential of these cameras requires …

We present our approach for overcoming the cost, operational complexity, and limited scale
endemic to datacenter networks a decade ago. Three themes unify the five generations of …

Over the past one and half years, we have been using RDMA over commodity Ethernet
(RoCEv2) to support some of Microsoft's highly-reliable, latency-sensitive services. This …

One of the major applications of future generation parallel and distributed systems is in big-
data analytics. Data repositories for such applications currently exceed exabytes and are …

This paper discusses approaches and environments for carrying out analytics on Clouds for
Big Data applications. It revolves around four important areas of analytics and Big Data …

Naiad is a distributed system for executing data parallel, cyclic dataflow programs. It offers
the high throughput of batch processors, the low latency of stream processors, and the ability …

We present BEAT, a set of practical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols for completely
asynchronous environments. BEAT is flexible, versatile, and extensible, consisting of five …