In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...
To scale to millions of Internet users with good performance, content delivery networks (CDNs) must balance requests between content servers while assigning clients to nearby serv...
Recent years have witnessed the trend of leveraging cloudbased services for large scale content storage, processing, and distribution. Security and privacy are among top concerns ...
The advent and popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has enabled access to a variety of semi-structured data and, when available, this data follows some common XML schema. On the...
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...