In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Abstract— Following Mark Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing and calm technology, computer systems should run in the background, preferably without the user noticing it at ...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a form-based handprint recognition system for reading information written on forms. This public domain soft...
-- In this paper we analyze P2P live streaming systems. Through this analysis we obtain the crucial parameters for their performance in terms of bandwidth utilization, set-up time,...