ACM Transactions on Computer Systems

Component-based software structuring principles are now commonplace at the application level; but componentization is far less established when it comes to building low-level systems software. Although there have been pioneering efforts in applying ...

With the advent of chip multiprocessors, exploiting intratransaction parallelism in database systems is an attractive way of improving transaction performance. However, exploiting intratransaction parallelism is difficult for two reasons: first, ...

This article focuses on the multireceiver data dissemination problem. Initially, IP multicast formed the basis for efficiently supporting such distribution. More recently, overlay networks have emerged to support point-to-multipoint communication. Both ...