Inter-process communication (ipc) has to be fast and e ective, otherwise programmers will not use remote procedure calls(RPC),multithreadingand multitasking adequately. Thus ipc p...
Metaprogramming is the process of specifying generic software source templates from which classes of software components, or parts thereof, can be automatically instantiated to pr...
In developing a distributed file system, there are several good reasons for implementing the client file cache manager as a user-level process. These include ease of implementatio...
David C. Steere, James J. Kistler, Mahadev Satyana...
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...
The user experience for networked applications is becoming a key benchmark for customers and network providers. Perceived user experience is largely determined by the frequency, d...