Information retrieval techniques have to face both the growing amount of data to be processed and the "natural" distribution of these data over the network. Hence, we in...
Mayday is an architecture that combines overlay networks with lightweight packet filtering to defend against denial of service attacks. The overlay nodes perform client authentic...
Abstract. This paper discusses concurrency control in distributed geographical database systems. A geographic data server providing transactional services must be designed to handl...
The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed compu...
David Spence, Jon Crowcroft, Steven Hand, Timothy ...
Audio search plays an important role in analyzing audio data and retrieving useful audio information. In this paper, a Partially Overlapping Block-Parallel Active Search method (P...