A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
In this paper, we discuss a parallel tabu search algorithm with implementation in a heterogeneous environment. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposit...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Hassan Barada, ...
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad
Orca is a portable, object-based distributed shared memory system. This paper studies and evaluates the design choices made in the Orca system and compares Orca with other DSMs. T...
Henri E. Bal, Raoul Bhoedjang, Rutger F. H. Hofman...
Abstract— Multimedia centric P2P must take into consideration the main characteristics and the complex relationships among multimedia objects. In this paper, we propose a cluster...