In this paper, we present a checkpoint-based scheme to improve the turnaround time of bag-of-tasks applications executed on institutional desktop grids. We propose to share checkp...
When multiple video sources are live-encoded and transmitted over a common wireless network, each stream needs to adapt its encoding parameters to wireless channel fluctuations, ...
The advent and popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has enabled access to a variety of semi-structured data and, when available, this data follows some common XML schema. On the...
We examine the problem of detecting the direction of motion in a binary sensor network; in such a network each sensor’s value is supplied reliably in a single bit of information...
We present an architectural framework for specifying and processing co-reservations in Grid environments. Compared to other approaches, our co-reservation framework is more genera...