Data prefetching, where data is fetched before CPU demands for it, has been considered as an effective solution to mask data access latency. However, the current client-initiated ...
With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...
Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...
In satellite and wireless networks and in advanced traffic information systems in which the up-link bandwidth is very limited, a server broadcasts data files in a round-robin man...
: A new push-and-pull hybrid data broadcast scheme is proposed for providing wireless information services to three types of clients, general, pull and priority clients. Only pull ...
Jian-Hao Hu, Kwan Lawrence Yeung, Gang Feng, K. F....