With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...
Continuous-media (CM) servers have been around for some years. Apart from server capacity, another important issue in the deployment of CM servers is reliability. This study invest...
The steady-state throughput of general network coding node is investigated, when data is transmitted in packets based on the stopand-wait automatic repeat request (SW-ARQ) error-co...
Software transactional memory (STM) is an emerging concurrency control mechanism for shared memory accesses. Early abort is one of the important techniques to improve the executio...
—We propose a dynamic spectrum access scheme where secondary users recommend “good” channels to each other and access accordingly. We formulate the problem as an average rewa...