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TON
1998
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Using name-based mappings to increase hit rates
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
David Thaler, Chinya V. Ravishankar
TON
2002
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Optimal retrial and timeout strategies for accessing network resources
The notion of timeout (namely, the maximal time to wait before retrying an action) turns up in many networking contexts, such as packet transmission, connection establishment, etc....
Lavy Libman, Ariel Orda
TPDS
2002
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Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
VLDB
2002
ACM
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Improving Data Access of J2EE Applications by Exploiting Asynchronous Messaging and Caching Services
The J2EE platform provides a variety of options for making business data persistent using DBMS technology. However, the integration with existing backend database systems has prov...
Samuel Kounev, Alejandro P. Buchmann
WINET
2002
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Multiple Working Points in Multichannel ALOHA with Deadlines
Abstract. This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the capacity of multichannel slotted ALOHA networks subject to a userspecified deadline and a permissible probability of ex...
Dror Baron, Yitzhak Birk