Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a new delivery method for TV. In contrast with native broadcast in traditional cable and satellite TV system, video streams in I...
Analyzing and controlling large distributed services under a wide range of conditions is difficult. Yet these capabilities are essential to a number of important development and o...
David L. Oppenheimer, Vitaliy Vatkovskiy, Hakim We...
The Flora of North America (FNA) is a large-scale collaboration involving over eight hundred scientists working together to create a 30-volume compendium of all naturally occurrin...
The volume of spam e-mails has grown rapidly in the last two years resulting in increasing costs to users, network operators, and e-mail service providers (ESPs). E-mail users dem...
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...