Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
Current developments show that tomorrow’s information systems and applications will no longer be based on monolithic architectures that encompass all the functionality. Rather, t...
Advances in communication technology allow a variety of new network environments and services available very rapidly. Appearance of various network environments tends to enable a ...
Jae-Hyun Hwang, Jin-Hee Choi, Se-Won Kim, Chuck Yo...
Rapid expansion has strained the capabilities of the Internet infrastructure. Emerging audio and video applications place further demands on already overloaded network elements, e...
Erol Basturk, Alexander Birman, G. Delp, Roch Gu&e...
Abstract. We consider the issue of task assignment in a distributed system under heavy-tailed (ie. highly variable) workloads. A new adaptable approach called TAPTF (Task Assignmen...