Multimedia applications are emerging in education, information dissemination, entertainment, as well as many other applications. The stringent requirements of such applications ma...
The paper proposes local and global optimization schemes for efficient TCP buffer allocation in an HTTP server. The proposed local optimization scheme dynamically adjusts the TCP ...
Recently, hackers has been developing fast propagating worms exploiting vulnerabilities that had just been disclosed by security experts. Those attacks particularly expose servers...
: Statistics that accurately describe the distribution of data values in the columns of relational tables are essential for effective query optimization in a database management sy...
Alexander Behm, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Kesha...
Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...