While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...
This paper describes an unconventional way to apply wireless networking in emerging technologies. It makes the case for using a two-tier hybrid wireless/wired architecture to inte...
Suk-Bok Lee, Sai-Wang Tam, Ioannis Pefkianakis, So...
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
Main memory contains transient information for all resident applications. However, if memory chip contents survives power-off, e.g., via freezing DRAM chips, sensitive data such a...
William Enck, Kevin R. B. Butler, Thomas Richardso...
—Distributing large data to many nodes, known as a broadcast or a multicast, is an important operation in parallel and distributed computing. Most previous broadcast algorithms e...