BitTorrent (BT) in practice is a very efficient method to share data over a network of clients. In this paper we extend the recent work of Arthur and Panigrahy [1] on modelling the...
In this paper, we discuss and compare several policies to place replicas in tree networks, subject to server capacity constraints. The client requests are known beforehand, while ...
This paper presents a novel mechanism that seeks to allow people to explore large collections of loosely structured audio. The approach provides a lightweight preview mechanism th...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Maria Karam, Shengdong Zha...
Abstract— Scientific computing is being increasingly deployed over volunteer-based distributed computing environments consisting of idle resources on donated user machines. A fu...
Heterogeneous distributed computing systems often must operate in an environment where system parameters are subject to uncertainty. Robustness can be defined as the degree to wh...
Jay Smith, Luis Diego Briceno, Anthony A. Maciejew...