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Task-Cloning Algorithms in a MapReduce Cluster with Competitive Performance Bounds
Huanle Xu, Wing Cheong Lau
Job scheduling for a MapReduce cluster has been an active research topic in recent years. However, measurement traces from real-world production environment show that the duration…
Optimization for Speculative Execution of Multiple Jobs in a MapReduce-like Cluster
Huanle Xu, Wing Cheong Lau
Nowadays, a computing cluster in a typical data center can easily consist of hundreds of thousands of commodity servers, making component/ machine failures the norm rather than exc…
Secure Friend Discovery via Privacy-Preserving and Decentralized Community Detection
Pili Hu, Sherman S. M. Chow, Wing Cheong Lau
The problem of secure friend discovery on a social network has long been proposed and studied. The requirement is that a pair of nodes can make befriending decisions with minimum i…
SNSAPI: A Cross-Platform Middleware for Rapid Deployment of Decentralized Social Networks
Pili Hu, Qijiang Fan, Wing Cheong Lau
In this paper, we present the design, implementation and our year-long maintenance experience of SNSAPI, a Python-based middleware which unifies the interfaces and data structures…