Abstract. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application deployment and monitoring in large-scale, distributed environments, few tools provide a unified framewor...
Jeannie R. Albrecht, Christopher Tuttle, Alex C. S...
This paper proposes a practical content-dependent lowpower DCT design with tolerable quality drop. Lowpower issue has become more and more important, especially for portable devic...
Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...
In this chapter we take a look at the application of replication techniques for building scalable distributed systems. Unlike using replication for attaining dependability, replica...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...