Previous scalable protocols for downloading large, popular files from a single server include batching and cyclic multicast. With batching, clients wait to begin receiving a reque...
— To achieve high performance and resilience to failures, a client can make connections with multiple servers simultaneously and receive different portions of the data from each ...
This paper surveys distributed computing techniques used in the implementation of BEA WebLogic Server. It discusses how application servers provide a distributed transactional inf...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...
Mobile clients have unusual needs for sending and receiving multimedia data. The traditional client/server paradigm does not take into account variable network conditions; thus tr...