For many data providers, the “crown jewels” of their business are the data that they have organized. If someone could copy their entire database, it would be a competitive cata...
Magesh Jayapandian, Brian D. Noble, James W. Micke...
The requirement for Grid middleware to be largely transparent to individual users and at the same time act in accordance with their personal needs is a difficult challenge. In e-...
Clock-related operations are one of the many sources of replica non-determinism and of replica inconsistency in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In passive replication, if the ...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
We propose a new model for on-demand media streaming centered around the peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm. The proposed P2P model can support a large number of clients with a low overa...
Decreasing feature sizes and increasing package densities are making thermal issues extremely important in IC design. Uneven thermal maps and hot spots in ICs cause physical stres...