Control independence has been put forward as a significant new source of instruction-level parallelism for future generation processors. However, its performance potential under p...
One of the main advantages of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems is their capability to offer replicas of the same content at various locations. This allows to access contents even when so...
The use of proxies for local error recovery and congestion control is a scalable technique used to overcome a number of wellknown problems in Reliable Multicast (RM). The idea is ...
Images are usually transmitted across the Internet using a lossless protocol such as TCP/IP. Lossless protocols require retransmission of lost packets, which substantially increas...
A large portion of the software used in industry today is legacy software. Legacy systems often evolve into dicult to maintain systems whose original design has been lost or else ...