—Caching is a popular technique for reducing both server load and user response time in distributed systems. In this paper, we consider the question of whether caching might be e...
Internet streaming applications are affected by adverse network conditions such as high packet loss rates and long delays. This paper aims at mitigating such effects by leveraging...
— Satellite operators have recently begun offering Internet access over their networks. Typically, users connect to the network using a modem for uplink, and a satellite dish for...
Mukesh Agrawal, Amit Manjhi, Nikhil Bansal, Sriniv...
Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...
I/O bottlenecks are already a problem in many largescale applications that manipulate huge datasets. This problem is expected to get worse as applications get larger, and the I/O ...
Murali Vilayannur, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Mahmut T...
News on demand features user interaction, interdependent media and is used by different client types. These requirements are not yet accommodated by a single solution. We address ...
Portals are one of the rapidly growing applications on the Web, providing a single interface to access different sources (providers). Providing fast response time is one of the c...
Mehregan Mahdavi, John Shepherd, Boualem Benatalla...
A popular solution to internet performance problems is the widespread caching of data. Many caching algorithms have been proposed in the literature, most attempting to optimize fo...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
Abstract. Caching can highly improve performance of query processing in distributed databases. In this paper we show how this technique can be used in grid architecture where data ...
Piotr Cybula, Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stence...
In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...