—The traditional formulation of the total value of information transfer is a multi-commodity flow problem. Here, each data source is seen as generating a commodity along a fixe...
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 ...
In high-end grid networks, distributed resources (scientific instruments, CPUs, storages, etc.) are interconnected to support computing-intensive and data-intensive applications, w...
— The core-stateless service architecture alleviates the scalability problems of the integrated service framework while maintaining its guaranteed service semantics. The admissio...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage is a promising technology to provide users with cheap and online persistence. However, due the instability of these infrastructures, P2P storage systems...