Video on Demand (VoD) is a technology used to provide a number of programs to a number of users on request. In developing a VoD system, a fundamental problem is load balancing, wh...
High availability for both data and applications is rapidly becoming a business requirement. While database systems support recovery, providing high database availability, applica...
Mobile computing characteristics demand data management systems to support independent operation. However, the execution of updates in a mobile client usually need to be considere...
Emerging IPTV technology uses source-specific IP multicast to deliver TV programs to the end-users. To provide timely and reliable services over the error-prone DSL access networ...
We prove new lower bounds for locally decodable codes and private information retrieval. We show that a 2-query LDC encoding nbit strings over an ℓ-bit alphabet, where the decode...