In this paper, we discuss and compare several policies to place replicas in tree networks, subject to server capacity constraints. The client requests are known beforehand, while ...
Abstract— On-demand and live multimedia streaming applications (such as Internet TV) are well known to utilize a significant amount of bandwidth from media streaming servers, es...
We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
A fundamental problem in data management is to draw a sample of a large data set, for approximate query answering, selectivity estimation, and query planning. With large, streamin...
Graham Cormode, S. Muthukrishnan, Ke Yi, Qin Zhang
Synchronizing di erent data streams from multiple sources simultaneously at a receiver is one of the basic problems involved in multimedia distributed systems. This requirement st...
Narayanan Shivakumar, Cormac J. Sreenan, B. Narend...