Recently, a server-less video-on-demand architecture has been proposed to eliminate costly dedicated video servers and yet is highly scalable and reliable. However, because of the...
Memory-intensive applications often suffer from the poor performance of disk swapping when memory is inadequate. Remote memory sharing schemes, which provide a remote memory that ...
Abstract. Even though there have been many research works on distributed deadlock detection and recovery mechanisms, the multi-cycle deadlock problems are not extensively studied y...
In this paper we propose a new resource discovery protocol, REALTOR, which is based on a combination of pullbased and push-based resource information dissemination. REALTOR has be...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...