Indexes for large collections are often divided into shards that are distributed across multiple computers and searched in parallel to provide rapid interactive search. Typically,...
Abstract—In large distributed systems, where shared resources are owned by distinct entities, there is a need to reflect resource ownership in resource allocation. An appropriat...
Jose Nelson Falavinha Junior, Aleardo Manacero Jun...
Quality of service for high-bandwidth or delay-sensitive applications in the Internet, such as streaming media and online games, can be significantly improved by replicating serv...
When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...