Every computer needs a timer mechanism to keep track of current time and also for various accounting purposes such as calculating the time spent by a process in CPU utilization, di...
— Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providin...
PULC is a user-level communication library for workstation clusters. PULC provides a multi-user, multi-programming communication library for user level communication on top of high...
Joachim M. Blum, Thomas M. Warschko, Walter F. Tic...
This paper describes a new model for constructing distributed systems called the Remote Memory Model. The remote memory model consists of several client machines, one or more dedi...
Peer-to-peer networks consist of thousands or millions of nodes that might join and leave arbitrarily. The evaluation of new protocols in real environments is many times practical...
Vassilios Chrissikopoulos, George Papaloukopoulos,...