The Distributed Video Server (DVS) system provides a comprehensive solution for the management and distribution of a major future electronic commodity service, Video on Demand (VO...
Abstract Loosely coupled services are gaining importance in many business domains. However, compared to OO-RPC middleware approaches, emerging technologies proposed to implement lo...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...
This paperintroduces the notion of “universalinteraction,” allowing a device to adapt its functionality to exploit services it discovers as it moves into a new environment. Us...
Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schre...
Designers of distributed systems often rely on replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures require some technique to select a ...