— Although cooperation generally increases the amount of resources available to a community of nodes, thus improving individual and collective performance, it also allows for the...
Executing parallel applications across distributed networks introduces the problem of fault tolerance. A viable solution for fault tolerance must keep overhead manageable and not c...
This paper investigates the influence of the combination of the scalability parameters in scalable video coding (SVC) schemes on the subjective visual quality. We aim at providing...
Jong-Seok Lee, Francesca De Simone, Naeem Ramzan, ...
Pangaea is a wide-area file system that supports data sharing among a community of widely distributed users. It is built on a symmetrically decentralized infrastructure that consi...
Yasushi Saito, Christos T. Karamanolis, Magnus Kar...
We present Schism, a novel workload-aware approach for database partitioning and replication designed to improve scalability of sharednothing distributed databases. Because distri...
Carlo Curino, Yang Zhang, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel...