Protocol and system designers use verification techniques to analyze a system's correctness properties. Network operators need verification techniques to ensure the "cor...
The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service. Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple cl...
Metacomputing allows the exploitation of geographically seperate, heterogenous networks and resources. Most metacomputers are feature rich and carry a long, complicated installati...
The successful deployment of next-generation distributed multimedia systems is signi cantly dependent on the e cient management support that improves the performance and the relia...
Load balancing and data locality are the two most important factors in the performance of parallel programs on distributed-memory multiprocessors. A good balancing scheme should e...