Existing solutions for top-k queries in wireless sensor networks mainly focused on energy efficiency and little attention has been paid to the response time to answer a top-k que...
P2P Networks are highly dynamic structures since their nodes – peer users keep joining and leaving continuously. In the paper, we study the effects of network change rates on qu...
We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
Unstructured peer-to-peer networks have become a very popular method for content distribution in the past few years. By not enforcing strict rules on the network’s topology or c...
Brian D. Connelly, Christopher W. Bowron, Li Xiao,...
Large-scale, user-facing applications are increasingly moving from relational databases to distributed key/value stores for high-request-rate, low-latency workloads. Often, this m...
Michael Armbrust, Nick Lanham, Stephen Tu, Armando...