A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...
Abstract. The performance of multi-tier systems is known to be significantly degraded by workloads that place bursty service demands on system resources. Burstiness can cause queu...
Giuliano Casale, Amir Kalbasi, Diwakar Krishnamurt...
As dynamically linked content follows the progression of statically linked media into the realm of video, new opportunities for link creation become apparent. In this paper we des...
We describe Quality of service pICKER (QUICKER), a model-driven QoS mapping toolchain for supporting the QoS design and evolution of systems software. QUICKER automates the mappin...
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting distributed applications. With the expanding role of middleware, however, a number of problems are emer...