Distributed virtual environments allow users at di erent geographical locations to share and interact within a common virtual environment via a local network or through the Intern...
Jimmy H. P. Chim, Rynson W. H. Lau, Antonio Si, Ho...
Web prefetching is an attractive solution to reduce the network resources consumed by Web services as well as the access latencies perceived by Web users. Unlike Web caching, whic...
George Pallis, Athena Vakali, Jaroslav Pokorn&yacu...
Abstract-- Overlay networks are application layer systems which facilitate users in performing distributed functions such as searches over the contents of other users. An important...
Parallel programs that modify shared data in a cachecoherent multiprocessor with a write-invalidate coherence protocol create ownership overhead in the form of ownership acquisiti...
The Internet and file sharing technology (such as P2P network) significantly alleviate the content distribution cost. However, better digital content distribution also means that ...