—It has been widely acknowledged that online storage systems within the “cloud” of the Internet provide services of a substantial value to end users who wish to share files ...
Ye Sun, Fangming Liu, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing offers new opportunities for building highly distributed data systems. Unlike client-server computing, P2P can operate without central coordination and...
In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speci...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...
The diversity of mobile devices and their limitations have raised many challenges for the actual deployment of mobile learning across institutions. The main objective of this work...