In a data-indexed DHT overlay network, published data annotations form distributed databases. Queries are distributed to these databases in a nonuniform way. Constructing content d...
Bassam A. Alqaralleh, Chen Wang, Bing Bing Zhou, A...
The Mariposa distributed data manager uses an economic model for managing the allocation of both storage objects and queries to servers. In this paper, we present extensions to th...
Jeff Sidell, Paul M. Aoki, Adam Sah, Carl Staelin,...
: DQ metadata can be stored in a Metadata Repository (MDR). The structure of the MDR should be carefully defined to ensure a maximum amount of flexibility, generality and ease of u...
David Becker, William McMullen, Kevin Hetherington...
In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
Third Generation (3G) cellular networks utilize timevarying and location-dependent channel conditions to provide broadband services. They employ opportunistic scheduling to effic...