— Within packet processing systems, lengthy memory accesses greatly reduce performance. To overcome this limitation, network processors utilize many different techniques, e.g., u...
News on demand features user interaction, interdependent media and is used by different client types. These requirements are not yet accommodated by a single solution. We address ...
Large scale web caches are in fact localized sources of web contents. Besides replacement policies, which decide the contents of a cache, the management of such contents is an iss...
To function in mobile computing environments, distributed file systems must cope with networks that are slow, intermittent, or both. Intermittence vitiates the effectiveness of ca...
The lazy caching algorithm of Afek, Brown, and Merrit (1993) is a protocol that allows the use of local caches with delayed updates. It results in a memory model that is not atomi...