For most of its existence, Linux has been used primarily as a personal desktop operating system. Yet, in recent times, its use as a cost-efficient alternative to commercial operat...
Abstract— In this paper, we propose a distributed opportunistic access scheme for uplink OFDMA systems. The sub-carriers are grouped into several sub-channels. Users access these...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
Most state-of-the-art commercial storage virtualization systems focus only on one particular storage attribute, capacity. This paper describes the design, implementation and evalu...
The IST project Cuidado, which started in January 2001, aims at producing the first entirely automatic chain for extracting and exploiting musical metadata for browsing music. The...