In a grid computing environment, resources are autonomous, wide-area distributed, and what’s more, they are usually not free. These unique characteristics make scheduling in a s...
Robotic tape libraries (RTLs) currently enjoy a prominent place in the storage market, with a reported average annual growth rate approaching 34%, primarily due to their low cost ...
Abstract— A cross-layer optimization combining retransmission diversity with multi-user diversity is investigated for wireless communications. To this end, a joint design of adap...
Xin Wang, Di Wang, Irena Li, Hanqi Zhuang, Salvato...
Internal switches in all-photonic networks do not perform data conversion into the electronic domain, thereby eliminating a potential capacity bottleneck, but the inability to per...
Currently, the OFDMA transmission scheme seems to be a promising candidate for future broadband radio systems. The crucial part which determines the performance is thereby the com...