Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to e ciently support either event-drive...
— We consider the novel problem of dynamically assigning application sessions of mobile users or user groups to service points. Such assignments must balance the tradeoff between...
— One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of Internet services. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers ...
—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have been shown to be a promising approach to providing large-scale Video-on-Demand (VoD) services over the Internet for their potential scalability....
The complexity of developing and deploying context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggre...