Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
The first mass-produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear—the AutoPC, the Internet-connected ScreenFridge, and the combination Microwave Oven/Home Banking term...
Andrew C. Huang, Benjamin C. Ling, Shankar Ponneka...
The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number of requests that can be serviced concurrently by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resour...
This paper introduces a scalable maxmin flow control protocol which guarantees the minimum rate for each connection-oriented flow without requiring per-flow information. The proto...
Yuseok Kim, Wei Kang Tsai, Mahadevan Iyer, Jordi R...
Global vision consensus on the next generation of wireless mobile communications, broadly termed 4G, sketches a hybrid infrastructure, comprising different wireless access systems ...
Vangelis Gazis, Nancy Alonistioti, Lazaros F. Mera...