Storage as a Service (StaaS) is a vital component of cloud computing by offering the vision
of a virtually infinite pool of storage resources. It supports a variety of cloud-based data store …

This paper addresses the problem of category-level image classification. The underlying
image model is a graph whose nodes correspond to a dense set of regions, and edges …

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emergent technology that has revolutionized traditional
cloud service solutions. Mobile edge computing extends cloud computing by providing …

We present a system for the annotation and augmentation of mountain photographs. The
key issue resides in the registration of a given photograph with a 3D geo-referenced terrain …

Modern cloud systems are geo-replicated to improve application latency and availability.
Transactional consistency is essential for application developers; however, the …

Explores the firewall security and performance relationships for distributed systems.
Experiments are conducted to set firewall security into seven different levels and to quantify …

This article addresses the problem of self-tuning the data placement in replicated key-value
stores. The goal is to automatically optimize replica placement in a way that leverages …

In this article we present SCORe, a scalable one-copy serializable partial replication
protocol. Differently from any other literature proposal, SCORe jointly guarantees the …

New multi-leader consensus protocols leverage the Generalized Consensus specification to
enable low latency, even load balancing, and high parallelism. However, these protocols …

We present Alvin, a system for managing concurrent transactions running on a set of
geographically distributed sites. Alvin supports general-purpose transactions, and …