Several recent studies have proposed methods to accelerate the receipt of a file by downloading its parts from different servers in parallel. The schemes suggested in most propose...
Random sampling is an appealing approach to build synopses of large data streams because random samples can be used for a broad spectrum of analytical tasks. Users are often inter...
—Today’s large campus and enterprise networks are characterized by their complexity, i.e. containing thousands of hosts, and diversity, i.e. with various applications and usage...
A subjective quality evaluation was performed to quantify viewer responses to various visual defects that appear in low bit rate video, both at full and reduced frame rates. The s...
According to the database outsourcing model, a data owner delegates database functionality to a thirdparty service provider, which answers queries received from clients. Authentic...