We consider an environment where one or more servers carry databases that are of interest to a community of clients. The clients are only intermittently connected to the server fo...
Sameer Mahajan, Michael J. Donahoo, Shamkant B. Na...
Recent technology trends in the Web Services (WS) domain indicate that a solution eliminating the presumed complexity of the WS-* standards may be in sight: advocates of REpresent...
Providing video on demand (VoD) service over the Internet in a scalable way is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose P2Cast - an architecture that uses a peer-to-peer a...
Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, James F. Kurose, Donald F...
Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
The central goal of data stream algorithms is to process massive streams of data using sublinear storage space. Motivated by work in the database community on outsourcing database...