Networks of wireless microsensors for monitoring physical environments have emerged as an important new application area for the wireless technology. Key attributes of these new t...
I argue against trying to solve the problem of clustering objects into disk pages. Instead, I propose that objects be fetched in groups that may be specific to an application or ...
In this paper, we introduce an XML-based Hierarchical QoS Markup Language, called HQML, to enhance distributed multimedia applications on the World Wide Web (WWW) with Quality of ...
The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...
Storage systems manage quotas to ensure that no one user can use more than their share of storage, and that each user gets the storage they need. This is difficult for large, dis...
Kristal T. Pollack, Darrell D. E. Long, Richard A....