Paul Townend

According to our database, Paul Townend authored at least 58 papers between 2001 and 2023.

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2023

Formal Models for the Energy-Aware Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum: Analysis and Challenges.

Yashwant Singh Patel, Paul Townend, Per-Olov Östberg

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2023

COGNIT: Challenges and Vision for a Serverless and Multi-Provider Cognitive Cloud-Edge Continuum.

Paul Townend, Alberto P. Martí, Idoia De-la-Iglesia, Nikolaos Matskanis, Thomas Ohlson Timoudas, Torsten Hallmann, Antonio Lalaguna, Kaja Swat, Francesco Renzi, Dominik Bochenski, Marco Mancini, Monowar H. Bhuyan, Marco González-Hierro, Sébastien Dupont, Johan Kristiansson, Rubén S. Montero, Erik Elmroth, Ivá Valdés, Philippe Massonet, Daniel Olsson, Ignacio Martín Llorente, Per-Olov Östberg, Michael Abdou

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications, 2023

2022

Service Mesh and eBPF-Powered Microservices: A Survey and Future Directions.

Mohammad Reza Saleh Sedghpour, Paul Townend

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2022

When and How to Retrain Machine Learning-based Cloud Management Systems.

Lidia Kidane, Paul Townend, Thijs Metsch, Erik Elmroth

Proceedings of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2022

The 6G Computing Continuum (6GCC): Meeting the 6G computing challenges.

William Tärneberg, Emma Fitzgerald, Monowar H. Bhuyan, Paul Townend, Karl-Erik Årzén, Per-Olov Östberg, Erik Elmroth, Johan Eker, Fredrik Tufvesson, Maria Kihl

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 6G Networking, 2022

2019

Errata to "Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems".

Yiming Zhang, Rong N. Chang, Paul Townend

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput., 2019

Guest Editor's Introduction: Special Section on Virtualization and Services for Cloud-Based Application Systems.

Yiming Zhang, Rong N. Chang, Paul Townend

IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput., 2019

Invited Paper: Improving Data Center Efficiency Through Holistic Scheduling In Kubernetes.

Paul Townend, Stephen J. Clement, Dan Burdett, Renyu Yang, Joe Shaw, Brad Slater, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2019

2018

Adaptive Speculation for Efficient Internetware Application Execution in Clouds.

Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, Bernhard Primas, David McKee, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

ACM Trans. Internet Techn., 2018

Improving content-based image retrieval for heterogeneous datasets using histogram-based descriptors.

Carolina Reta, Ismael Solís Moreno, Jose Antonio Cantoral-Ceballos, Rogelio Alvarez-Vargas, Paul Townend

Multim. Tools Appl., 2018

Intelligent Resource Scheduling at Scale: A Machine Learning Perspective.

Renyu Yang, Xue Ouyang, Yaofeng Chen, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2018

2017

Mitigate data skew caused stragglers through ImKP partition in MapReduce.

Xue Ouyang, Huan Zhou, Stephen J. Clement, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, 2017

ML-NA: A Machine Learning Based Node Performance Analyzer Utilizing Straggler Statistics.

Xue Ouyang, Changjian Wang, Renyu Yang, Guogui Yang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2017

PROV-TE: A Provenance-Driven Diagnostic Framework for Task Eviction in Data Centers.

Abdulaziz Albatli, David McKee, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Applications, 2017

2016

Holistic data centres: Next generation data and thermal energy infrastructures.

Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Jon Summers, Daniel Ruprecht, Harvey Thompson

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, 2016

Straggler Detection in Parallel Computing Systems through Dynamic Threshold Calculation.

Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, David McKee, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, 2016

An Approach for Modeling and Ranking Node-Level Stragglers in Cloud Datacenters.

Xue Ouyang, Peter Garraghan, Changjian Wang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2016

2015

Timely Long Tail Identification through Agent Based Monitoring and Analytics.

Peter Garraghan, Xue Ouyang, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE 18th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2015

2014

An Analysis of Failure-Related Energy Waste in a Large-Scale Cloud Environment.

Peter Garraghan, Ismael Solís Moreno, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput., 2014

Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Workload Patterns in a Large-Scale Utility Cloud.

Ismael Solís Moreno, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput., 2014

Restructuring Web Service Interfaces to Support Evolution.

David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, 2014

Dynamic Data Deduplication in Cloud Storage.

Waraporn Leesakul, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, 2014

Multi-tenancy in Cloud Computing.

Hussain Aljahdali, Abdulaziz Albatli, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, 2014

Towards a Virtual Integration Design and Analysis Enviroment for Automotive Engineering.

David McKee, David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, David Battersby

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2014

M-VCR: Multi-View Consensus Recognition for Real-Time Experimentation.

David McKee, Paul Townend, David Webster, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2014

Fault-Tolerant Dynamic Deduplication for Utility Computing.

Waraporn Leesakul, Paul Townend, Peter Garraghan, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2014

An Empirical Failure-Analysis of a Large-Scale Cloud Computing Environment.

Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 15th International IEEE Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering, 2014

2013

Using Byzantine Fault-Tolerance to Improve Dependability in Federated Cloud Computing.

Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Xiaoyu Yang, Peipei Sui

Int. J. Softw. Informatics, 2013

Intrusion damage assessment for multi-stage attacks for clouds.

Junaid Arshad, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Imran Ali Jokhio, Paul Townend

IET Commun., 2013

A novel intrusion severity analysis approach for Clouds.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Future Gener. Comput. Syst., 2013

A Graph-Based Approach to Address Trust and Reputation in Ubiquitous Networks.

Valentina Viduto, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame, Alexey Bochenkov

Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2013

Personalised Provenance Reasoning Models and Risk Assessment in Business Systems: A Case Study.

Paul Townend, David Webster, Colin C. Venters, Vania Dimitrova, Karim Djemame, Lydia Lau, Jie Xu, Sarah Fores, Valentina Viduto, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Stephen Hobson

Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2013

An Approach for Characterizing Workloads in Google Cloud to Derive Realistic Resource Utilization Models.

Ismael Solís Moreno, Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2013

Enhancing Multi-tenancy Security in the Cloud IaaS Model over Public Deployment.

Hussain Aljahdali, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering, 2013

An evaluation framework for assessing the dependability of Dynamic Binding in Service-Oriented Computing.

Anthony Sargeant, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2013

An Analysis of the Server Characteristics and Resource Utilization in Google Cloud.

Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, 2013

Risk Assessment and Trust in Services Computing: Applications and Experience.

Paul Townend, Valentina Viduto, David Webster, Karim Djemame, Lydia Lau, Vania Dimitrova, Jie Xu, Sarah Fores, Charlie Dibsdale, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Stephen Hobson

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 28, 2013

2012

Cloud Computing Security: Opportunities and Pitfalls.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Wei Jie

Int. J. Grid High Perform. Comput., 2012

Interface Refactoring in Performance-Constrained Web Services.

David Webster, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, 2012

A Framework for Improving Trust in Dynamic Service-Oriented Systems.

Paul Townend, Colin C. Venters, Lydia Lau, Karim Djemame, Vania Dimitrova, Alison Marshall, Jie Xu, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Martyn Fletcher, Stephen Hobson

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing Workshops, 2012

Real-Time Fault-Tolerance in Federated Cloud Environments.

Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing Workshops, 2012

Evaluating the Dependability of Dynamic Binding in Web Services.

Anthony Sargeant, Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Karim Djemame

Proceedings of the 14th International IEEE Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering, 2012

2011

An Intrusion Diagnosis Perspective on Cloud Computing.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the Guide to e-Science, Next Generation Scientific Research and Discovery, 2011

An Abstract Model for Integrated Intrusion Detection and Severity Analysis for Clouds.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Int. J. Cloud Appl. Comput., 2011

An automatic intrusion diagnosis approach for clouds.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Int. J. Autom. Comput., 2011

A review of grid authentication and authorization technologies and support for federated access control.

Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, Richard O. Sinnott, Paul Townend, Zhou Lei

ACM Comput. Surv., 2011

Provenance: Current directions and future challenges for service oriented computing.

Colin C. Venters, Paul Townend, Lydia Lau, Karim Djemame, Vania Dimitrova, Alison Marshall, Jie Xu, Charlie Dibsdale, Nick Taylor, Jim Austin, John McAvoy, Martyn Fletcher, Stephen Hobson

Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, 2011

Byzantine fault-tolerance in federated cloud computing.

Peter Garraghan, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering, 2011

2009

Efficient and scalable search on scale-free P2P networks.

Lu Liu, Jie Xu, Duncan Russell, Paul Townend, David Webster

Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl., 2009

Quantification of Security for Compute Intensive Workloads in Clouds.

Junaid Arshad, Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2009

2008

FT-Grid: a system for achieving fault tolerance in grids.

Jie Xu, Paul Townend, Nik Looker, Paul Groth

Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp., 2008

CROWN-C: A High-Assurance Service-Oriented Grid Middleware System.

Paul Townend, Jinpeng Huai, Jie Xu, Nik Looker, Dacheng Zhang, Jianxin Li, Liang Zhong

Computer, 2008

2006

Topology-aware fault tolerance in grids.

Paul Townend

PhD thesis, 2006

2005

Dependability in Grids.

Paul Townend, Jie Xu

IEEE Distributed Syst. Online, 2005

A Provenance-Aware Weighted Fault Tolerance Scheme for Service-Based Applications.

Paul Townend, Paul Groth, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2005), 2005

2002

Assessing Multi-Version Systems Through Fault Injection.

Paul Townend, Jie Xu

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2002), 2002

Building Embedded Fault-Tolerant Systems for Critical Applications: An Experimental Study.

Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Malcolm Munro

Proceedings of the Design and Analysis of Distributed Embedded Systems, IFIP 17^th World Computer Congress, 2002

2001

Building Dependable Software for Critical Applications: Multi-Version Software versus One Good Version.

Paul Townend, Jie Xu, Malcolm Munro

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2001), 2001