MIDDLEWARE

Web-based notification services are used by a large range of businesses to selectively distribute live updates to customers, following the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) model. Typical deployments can involve millions of subscribers expecting ordering and ...

Internet censorship is pervasive across the world. However, in some countries like China, even legal, nonpolitical services (e.g., Google Scholar) are incidentally blocked by extreme censorship machinery. Therefore, properly accessing legal Internet ...

Uncorrectable errors in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are a common form of hardware failure in server clusters. Failures are costly both in terms of hardware replacement costs and service disruption. While a large body of work exists on analyzing ...

Distracted driving is known to be the leading cause of motor vehicle accidents. With the increase in the number of IoT devices available within vehicles, there exists an abundance of data for monitoring driver behavior. However, designing a system ...

Diagnosing misconfiguration across modern software stacks is increasingly difficult. These stacks comprise multiple micro-services which are deployed across a combination of containers and hosts (VMs, physical machines) in a cloud or a data center. The ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) creates value by connecting digital processes to the physical world using embedded sensors, actuators and wireless networks. The IoT is increasingly intertwined with critical industrial processes, yet contemporary IoT ...

Operational visibility is an important administrative capability and a critical factor in deciding the success or failure of a cloud service. It is becoming increasingly complex due to the need to (1) track both persistent and volatile system state ...