With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...
Predictable network computing still involves a number of open questions. One such question is providing a controlled amount of CPU time to distributed processes. Mechanisms to cont...
E-mail services are essential in the Internet. However, the current e-mail architecture presents problems that open it to several threats. Alternatives have been proposed to solve...
When outsourcing data to an untrusted database server, the data should be encrypted. When using thin clients or low-bandwidth networks it is best to perform most of the work at the...
- In this paper we analyze the performance, utilization, and power estimation of server systems by both adopting the batch service and adjusting the batch size. In addition to redu...