High heterogeneity is an unignoring factor for large-scale peer-to-peer system which leads to the born of VChord. VChord is a peer-to-peer overlay network constructed on Chord aime...
Feng Hong, Minglu Li, Xinda Lu, Yi Wang, Jiadi Yu,...
Programmers and users of compute intensive scientific applications often do not want to (or even cannot) code load balancing and fault tolerance into their programs. The PBEAM syst...
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
MPEG-4 video consists of various video objects, rather than frames, allowing a true interactivity and manipulation of separate arbitrary shape object. Soware-based encoding of MPE...
Efficiently scheduling parallel tasks on to the processors of a shared-memory multiprocessor is critical to achieving high performance. Given perfect information at compile-time, ...