For Internet based video broadcasting applications such as IPTV, the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming scheme has been found to be an effective solution. An important issue in live bro...
Ying Li, Zhu Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank
: 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....
We study single machine scheduling problems, where processing times of the jobs are exponential functions of their start times. For increasing functions, we prove strong NP-hardnes...
—Peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution is a scalable way to disseminate content to a wide audience. For a P2P network, one fundamental performance metric is the average time need...
This paper addresses a surgery rooms scheduling problem. The problem is modeled as a parallel machine scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times and an objective of mi...