Streaming media objects have become widely used on the Internet, and the demand of interactive requests to these objects has increased dramatically. Typical interactive requests i...
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...
— Recently, overlay networks have emerged as a means to enhance end-to-end application performance and availability. Overlay networks attempt to leverage the inherent redundancy ...
Recent advances in bioinformatics and the significant increase in computational power available to researchers have made it possible to make better use of the vast amounts of gene...
Quorum protocols offer several benefits when used to maintain replicated data but techniques for reducing overheads associated with them have not been explored in detail. It is d...
Lei Kong, Deepak J. Manohar, Mustaque Ahamad, Arun...