Slowdown is used to measure the fairness degree of a scheduling algorithm in existing work. However, the fairness degree should be considered within a scheduling algorithm; rather...
One of the open questions in the design of multimedia storage servers is in what order to serve incoming requests. Given the capability provided by the disk layout and scheduling ...
We propose a cluster-based web server where a few computing nodes are separately reserved for high-performance computing applications, such as multimedia, SSL, and CGI. As an exam...
Recently, a server-less video-on-demand architecture has been proposed which can completely eliminate costly dedicated video servers and yet is highly scalable and reliable. Due to...
Abstract—Cache pre-filling is emerging as a new concept for increasing the availability of popular web items in cache servers. According to this concept, web items are sent by a...