IEEE 802.11 MAC, called the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF), employs carrier sensing to effectively avoid collisions, but this makes it difficult to maximally reuse the sp...
Wireless networks are experiencing a paradigm shift from focusing on the traditional data transfer to accommodating the rapidly increasing multimedia traffic. Hence, their schedul...
Hongfei Du, Xiaozheng Huang, Jie Liang, Jiangchuan...
Background: BLAST is one of the most common and useful tools for Genetic Research. This paper describes a software application we have termed Windows .NET Distributed Basic Local ...
Scot E. Dowd, Joaquin Zaragoza, Javier R. Rodrigue...
The use of virtualization is progressively accommodating diverse and unpredictable workloads as being adopted in virtual desktop and cloud computing environments. Since a virtual ...
Hwanju Kim, Hyeontaek Lim, Jinkyu Jeong, Heeseung ...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...