In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...
Broad web search engines as well as many more specialized search tools rely on web crawlers to acquire large collections of pages for indexing and analysis. Such a web crawler may...
In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are dedicated...
Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Anne-Marie Kermarre...
− Grid computing infrastructures and applications are increasingly diverse, with networks ranging from very high bandwidth optical networks to wireless networks and applications ...
Xinran (Ryan) Wu, Andrew A. Chien, Matti A. Hiltun...
Distributed computational grids depend on TCP to ensure reliable end-to-end communication between nodes across the wide-area network (WAN). Unfortunately, TCP performance can be a...