The demand for real-time cloud applications has seen an unprecedented growth over the
past decade. These applications require rapidly data transfer and fast computations. This …

To repair a failed block in the erasure-coded storage system, multiple related blocks have to
be retrieved from other storage nodes across the network. Such a process can lead to …

Industrial Internet platforms (IIP) can provide many intelligent services based on the
industrial big data stored in clouds. However, the vulnerability of cloud storage can cause …

Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have been widely adopted in various storage
systems, manifesting better performance than their forerunner HDDs. However, the …

The performance of large-scale distributed compute systems is adversely impacted by
stragglers when the execution time of a job is uncertain. To manage stragglers, we consider …

Traffic for internet video streaming has been rapidly increasing and is further expected to
increase with the higher definition videos and IoT applications, such as 360 degree videos …

Distributed storage systems are known to be susceptible to long response time, and higher
latency leads to a reduction in customers satisfaction. An elegant solution to reduce latency …

Trace replay is a common approach for evaluating systems by rerunning historical traffic
patterns, but it is not always possible to find suitable real-world traces at the desired level of …

Users of interactive services such as e-commerce platforms have high expectations for the
performance and responsiveness of these services. Tail latency, denoting the worst service …

Given the unpredictable nature of the nodes in distributed computing systems, some of the
tasks can be significantly delayed. Such delayed tasks are called stragglers. Straggler …