Abstract -- We present VCD, a novel system for enabling high-bandwidth content distribution in vehicular networks. In VCD, a vehicle opportunistically communicates with nearby acce...
IPTV service providers offering Video-on-Demandcurrently use servers at each metropolitan office to store all the videos in their library. With the rapid increase in library sizes...
David Applegate, Aaron Archer, Vijay Gopalakrishna...
Over the last 2-3 years, the importance of data-intensive computing has increasingly been recognized, closely coupled with the emergence and popularity of map-reduce for developin...
Many high-performance tools, applications and infrastructures, such as Paradyn, STAT, TAU, Ganglia, SuperMon, Astrolabe, Borealis, and MRNet, use data aggregation to synthesize lar...
Crash and omission failures are common in service providers: a disk can break down or a link can fail anytime. In addition, the probability of a node failure increases with the num...