Providing video on demand (VoD) service over the Internet in a scalable way is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose P2Cast - an architecture that uses a peer-to-peer a...
Yang Guo, Kyoungwon Suh, James F. Kurose, Donald F...
Many emerging scientific and industrial applications require transferring multiple Tbytes of data on a daily basis. Examples include pushing scientific data from particle accele...
Nikolaos Laoutaris, Georgios Smaragdakis, Pablo Ro...
As the industry moves toward larger-scale chip multiprocessors, the need to parallelize applications grows. High inter-thread communication delays, exacerbated by over-stressed hi...
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Adam Stoler, Guilhe...
A pass-through server such as an NFS server backed by an iSCSI[1] storage server only passes data between the storage server and NFS clients. Ideally it should require at most one...
Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...