— Scalable encoding scheme enables the player or streaming server to adaptively change the playback rate of multimedia content. However, in scalable streaming of layer encoded co...
We evaluate the reliability of storage system schemes consisting of an equal numbers of data disks and parity disks where each parity disk contains the exclusive or (XOR) of two o...
Reducing power consumption is critical in many system designs. Dynamic power management is an effective approach to decrease power without significantly degrading performance. Pow...
Yung-Hsiang Lu, Tajana Simunic, Giovanni De Michel...
This paper focuses on evaluation of the effectiveness of optimization at various layers of the IO path, such as the file system, the device driver scheduler, and the disk drive i...
In a Video-on-Demand server, requests from different clients are independent of each other and may arrive at random time. Commercial systems may contain hundreds to thousands of c...