Spatial databases are entering an era of mass deployment in various real-life applications, especially mobile and location-based services. The real-time processing of spatial quer...
With applications becoming larger and the increasing load on high performance systems, it is important to tackle the I/O bottleneck problem from several angles. It is not only ess...
Murali Vilayannur, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Anand Sivas...
We present NeST, a flexible software-only storage appliance designed to meet the storage needs of the Grid. NeST has three key features that make it well-suited for deployment in...
John Bent, Venkateshwaran Venkataramani, Nick LeRo...
Internet streaming applications are affected by adverse network conditions such as high packet loss rates and long delays. This paper aims at mitigating such effects by leveraging...
For a wireless network to effectively deliver services to the mobile users, it must have an efficient way to track them. The location management fulfills this task through locat...