Abstract— The design of efficient and scalable streaming Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) is an open problem of great economic interest. A key decision is the number of repl...
Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei, Mengxiao Wu
Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...
Applications such as multimedia streaming for mobile users, or video conferencing, require support within the network for transcoding, compression etc. Proxylets running on servers...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
One of the first motivations of using grids comes from applications managing large data sets in field such as high energy physics or life sciences. To improve the global throughput...