Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Online auction Web sites are fast changing, highly dynamic, and complex as they involve tremendous sellers and potential buyers, as well as a huge amount of items listed for biddi...
To support various bandwidth requirements for mobile multimedia services for future heterogeneous mobile environments, a transcoding video proxy is usually necessary to provide ad...
The software codec on mobile device introduces significant power consumption because the energy efficiency of general processor based system is much lower than that of the dedicat...
Min Li, Xiaobo Wu, Zihua Guo, Richard Yao, Xiaolan...
In this paper, we introduce Z-Ring, a fast prefix routing protocol for peer-to-peer overlay networks. Z-Ring incorporates cost-efficient membership protocol to achieve fast routin...
Qiao Lian, Wei Chen, Zheng Zhang, Shaomei Wu, Ben ...