Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
A multimedia server needs to satisfy the temporal ordering of multimedia data streams when servicing a client. Multimedia data has high bandwidth requirements, and within a networ...
This paper takes a known approach for scheduling and admission control in integrated services networks1 , the Priority Token Bank (PTB), whose mechanism and performance have been ...
Fully distributed storage systems have gained popularity in the past few years because of their ability to use cheap commodity hardware and their high scalability. While there are...
In most physical queueing applications, customers join a queue and move forward after each service, leaving room for others to join behind them. Some queues found in material hand...