We study the usefulness of lookahead in online server routing problems: if an online algorithm is not only informed about the requests released so far, but also has a limited abil...
Luca Allulli, Giorgio Ausiello, Vincenzo Bonifaci,...
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
Abstract—Grids can efficiently deal with challenging computational and data processing tasks which cutting edge science is generating today. So-called e-Science grids cope with ...
Chris Develder, Jens Buysse, Ali Shaikh, Brigitte ...
Application-level multicast is a new mechanism for enabling multicast in the Internet. Driven by the fast growth of network audio/video streams, application-level multicast has be...
In the future, many more people will use web service in Ubiquitous environments. SMD-cluster, which is one of previous research, is a proposed scalable cluster system to meet the c...