In video-on-demand (VOD) applications, it is desirable to provide the user with the video-cassette-recorder-like (VCR) capabilities such as fast-forwarding a video or jumping to a...
Intrusion prevention systems determine whether incoming traffic matches a database of signatures, where each signature in the database represents an attack or a vulnerability. IPSs...
Daniel Luchaup, Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somes...
Rendering high-quality computer animations requires intensive computation, and therefore a large amount of time. One way to speed up this process is to devise rendering algorithms...
Users of MapReduce often run into performance problems when they scale up their workloads. Many of the problems they encounter can be overcome by applying techniques learned from ...
Avrilia Floratou, Jignesh M. Patel, Eugene J. Shek...
Exponentially growing bandwidth requirements and slowing gains in processor speeds have led to the popularity of multiprocessor architectures. Network stack parallelism is increas...