The topological properties of a network directly impact the flow of information through a system. For example, in natural populations, the network of inter-individual contacts aff...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
The costs of data loss and unavailability can be large, so businesses use many data protection techniques, such as remote mirroring, snapshots and backups, to guard against failur...
Shravan Gaonkar, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, W...
— In this paper, we study the survivability problem in hierarchical wireless access networks with dual-homed end users, who are connected to two base stations (BSs), a primary BS...
Massively multiplayer online computer games are played in complex, persistent virtual worlds. Over time, the landscape of these worlds evolves and changes as players create and pe...