Roy Campbell, Indranil Gupta, Michael Heath, Steven Y. Ko, Michael Kozuch, Marcel Kunze, ...
There are a number of important and useful testbeds, such as PlanetLab, EmuLab, IBM/Google cluster, and Amazon EC2/S3, that enable researchers to study different aspects of distributed computing....
Global Memory Management for a Multi Computer System (2009)
Dejan Milojicic, Steve Hoyle, Alan Messer, Albert Munoz, Lance Russell, Tom Wylegala, ...
In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of fault-aware Global Memory Management (GMM) for a multi-kernel architecture. Scalability of today’s systems is limited by SMP hardware, as...
Scalable Management Technologies for Management of Large-Scale, Distributed Systems (2008)
Robert Adams, Paul Brett, Subu Iyer, Dejan Milojicic, Ro Rafaeli, Vanish Talwar
Modern computing environments, such as enterprise data centers, Grids, and PlanetLab, introduce distributed services to address scalability, locality, and reliability. Web Services (WS), in...
Dejan Milojicic, Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Wenchang Yan, Gueyoung Jung, Service Deployment
Traditional IT service-deployment technologies are based on scripts and configuration files,which have a limited ability to express dependencies and verify configurations, resulting in hard-to-use...
Adaptive Monitoring Automated Change Management for Monitoring Systems (2008)
V. Talwar, C. S. Shankar, Ro Rafaeli, Dejan Milojicic, Subu Iyer, Keith Farkas, ...
In today’s enterprise computing environments, changes in the computing environment are frequent: systems are redeployed on demand, and new services are brought up and down, or migrated within or...
Automated Availability Management Driven by Business Policies (2008)
Zhongtang Cai, Yuan Chen, Vibhore Kumar, Dejan Milojicic, Karsten Schwan
Abstract—Policy-driven service management helps reduce IT management cost and it keeps the service management aligned with business objectives. While most of the previous research focuses on...
Dejan Milojicic, Markus Breugst, Ingo Busse, John Campbell, Stefan Covaci, Barry Friedman, ...
† † Danny Lange was with IBM during the initial part of MASIF
Dejan Milojicic, Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Wenchang Yan, Gueyoung Jung, Service Deployment
Traditional IT service-deployment technologies are based on scripts and configuration files, but their limited ability to express dependencies and verify configurations results in hard-to-use and...
Adaptive Offloading for Pervasive Computing (2008)
Xiaohui Gu Alan, Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Dejan Milojicic, Klara Nahrstedt
Pervasive computing allows a user to access an application on heterogeneous devices continuously and consistently. However, it is challenging to deliver complex applications on resource-constrained...
Dejan Milojicic Hewlett, Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
visible and, once detected, easy to counteract. Today, attacks on any prominent Internet service can easily impact your needs, making them more noticeable. The impact on businesses can be even more...
Dejan Milojicic Hewlett, Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Laboratories
visible and, once detected, easy to counteract. Today, attacks on any prominent Internet service can easily impact your needs, making them more noticeable. The impact on businesses can be even more...
Selecting Devices for Aggregation Rajnish Kumar (2007)
Vahe Poladian, Ira Greenberg, Alan Messer, Dejan Milojicic
As intelligent devices become affordable and wireless infrastructure becomes pervasive, the potential to combine, or aggregate, device functionality to provide a user with a better experience grows....
* Internal Accession Date Only Approved for External Publication (2007)
Rajnish Kumar, Vahe Poladian, Ira Greenberg, Alan Messer, Dejan Milojicic
aggregation, personalized, preference, context, history As intelligent devices become affordable and as wireless infrastructure becomes pervasive, the potential to combine, or aggregate, device...
Global Memory Management for a Multi Computer System (2007)
Dejan Milojicic, Steve Hoyle, Alan Messer, Albert Munoz, Lance Russell, Tom Wylegala, ...
In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of fault-aware Global Memory Management (GMM) for a multikernel architecture. Scalability of today’s systems is limited by SMP hardware, as...
Abstract Selecting Devices for Aggregation (2007)
Rajnish Kumar, Vahe Poladian, Ira Greenberg, Alan Messer, Dejan Milojicic
As intelligent devices become affordable and wireless infrastructure becomes pervasive, the potential to combine, or aggregate, device functionality to provide a user with a better experience grows....
Content Exchange Appliances (2007)
Dejan Milojicic, John Ankcorn, Larry Rudolph, Himanshu Raj, Rich Gossweiler, Rich Gossweiler, ...
displays, appliances, personal appliances, content exchange WWW and current Information Technology have made it easy to display a wide variety of content on desktops and personal devices....
Appliance Aggregation Architecture (A 3) (2007)
Dejan Milojicic, Dejan Milojicic, Rick Corben, Rick Corben, Ira Greenberg, Ira Greenberg, ...
appliance, aggregation, distributed systems, architecture Technology is advancing and bringing personal IT appliances into every aspect of our life, with the intention of making life easier and...
Case Studies in Security and Resource Management for Mobile Object Systems (2007)
Dejan Milojicic, Gul Agha, Deepika Chauhan, Shai Guday, Nadeem Jamali, Dan Lambright, ...
Mobile objects have gained a lot of attention in research and industry in the recent past, but they also have a long history. Security is one of the key requirements of mobile objects, and one of the...
SLA Decomposition: Translating Service Level Objectives to System Level Thresholds (2007)
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan Milojicic, Akhil Sahai
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource utilization, thus...
SLA Decomposition: Translating Service Level Objectives to System Level Thresholds (2007)
Yuan Chen, Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Xue Liu, ...
performance modeling, queueing network model, utility computing virtualization Service Level Agreements (SLAs) capture the agreed upon guarantees between a service provider and its customer. In...
SLA Decomposition: Translating Service Level Objectives to System Level Thresholds (2007)
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan Milojicic, Akhil Sahai
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource utilization, thus...
Specification-enhanced policies for automated change management of it systems (2006)
Chetan Shankar, Vanish Talwar, Subu Iyer, Yuan Chen, Dejan Milojicic, Roy Campbell
Enterprise and grid computing systems are complex and subject to a broad range of changes such as configuration updates, failures, performance degradations. These changes affect infrastructure...
QMON: QoS- and Utility-Aware Monitoring in Enterprise Systems (2006)
Ip Agarwala, Yuan Chen, Dejan Milojicic, Karsten Schwan
Abstract — The scale, reliability, and cost requirements of enterprise data centers require automation of center management. Examples include provisioning, scheduling, capacity planning, logging...
Susceptibility of commodity systems and software to memory soft errors (2004)
Alan Messer, Guangrui Fu, Deqing Chen, Zoran Dimitrijevic, David Lie, Durga Devi Mannaru, ...
Abstract — It is widely understood that most system downtime is accounted for by programming errors and administration time. However, a growing body of work has indicated an increasing cause of...
Adaptive Offloading Inference for Delivering Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)
Xiaohui Gu, Klara Nahrstedt, Alan Messer, Dejan Milojicic, Ira Greenberg, Ira Greenberg, ...
Pervasive computing allows a user to access an application on heterogeneous devices continuously and consistently. However, it is challenging to deliver complex applications on resource-constrained...
Adaptive Offloading Inference for Delivering Applications in Pervasive Computing Environments (2003)
Xiaohui Gu, Klara Nahrstedt, Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Dejan Milojicic
Pervasive computing allows a user to access an application on heterogeneous devices continuously and consistently. However, it is challenging to deliver complex applications on resource-constrained...
Memory Offloading via Garbage Collection for Memory Constrained Devices (2002)
Chen, DeQing, Messer, Alan, Greenberg, I., Bernadat, P., Milojicic, Dejan, Dwarkadas, Sandhya
Our everyday life is becoming increasingly filled with computing devices. Among them, mobile and embedded devices usually have far more limited resource specifications than wired and consequently...
Towards a Distributed Platform for Resource-Constrained Devices (2002)
Alan Messer, Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Ira Greenberg, Dejan Milojicic, Dejan Milojicic, ...
distributed platform, Java, resource constraints, mobile computing Many visions of the future predict a world with pervasive computing, where computing services and resources permeate the...
Memory Offloading via Garbage Collection for Memory Constrained Devices (2002)
Deqing Chen, Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Philippe Bernadat, Dejan Milojicic, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
Our everyday life is becoming increasingly filled with computing devices. Among them, mobile and embedded devices usually have far more limited resource specifications than wired and consequently...
Memory Offloading via Garbage Collection for Memory Constrained Devices (2002)
Deqing Chen, Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Dejan Milojicic, Hya Dwarkadas
Our everyday life is becoming increasingly filled with computing devices. Among them, mobile and embedded devices usually have far more limited resource specifications than wired and consequently...
Tailoring Java for a Pervasive Service Infrastructure (2002)
Philippe Bernadat, Ira Greenberg, Ira Greenberg, Alan Messer, Alan Messer, Dejan Milojicic, ...
A growing number of mobile computing devices are becoming available that can access large amounts of data and services over the Internet. While Java appears to be an appropriate platform to deal with...
Towards a Distributed Platform for Resource-Constrained Devices (2002)
Alan Messer, Ira Greenberg, Dejan Milojicic, Deqing Chen, T. J. Giuli, Xiaohui Gu
JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors (2001)
Deqing Chen, Alan Messer, Guangrui Fu, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Durga Mannaru, Dejan Milojicic
Modern computer systems are becoming more powerful and are using larger memories. However, except for very high end systems, little attention is being paid to high availability. This is particularly...
Susceptibility of modern systems and software to soft errors (2001)
David Lie, Alan Messer, Alan Messer, Guangrui Fu, Guangrui Fu, Deqing Chen, ...
It is widely understood that most downtime is accounted for by programming errors and administration time. However, recent work has indicated an increasing cause of downtime may stem from transient...
JVM Susceptibility to Memory Errors (2001)
Deqing Chen, Alan Messer, Guangrui Fu, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Durga Mannaru, Alma Riska, ...
Modern systems are getting more powerful and using larger memories. However, except at the very high end systems, much less attention is being paid to high availability. This is particularly the case...
Increasing relevance of memory hardware errors: a case for recoverable programming models (2000)
Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, James Shau, Guangrui Fu, Alberto Munoz
It is a common belief that most of computer system failures nowadays stem from programming errors. Computer systems are becoming more complex and harder to maintain and administer, making software...
Increasing Relevance of Memory Hardware Errors - A Case for Recoverable Programming Models (2000)
Dejan Milojicic, Alan Messer, James Shau, Guangrui Fu, Alberto Munoz
It is a common belief that most of computer system failures nowadays stem from programming errors. Computer systems are becoming more complex and harder to maintain and administer, making software...
Global Memory Management for a Multi Computer System (2000)
Dejan Milojicic, Steve Hoyle, Alan Messer, Albert Munoz, Lance Russell, Tom Wylegala, ...
In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of fault-aware Global Memory Management (GMM) for a multi-kernel architecture. Scalability of today's systems is limited by SMP hardware,...