The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Much of a computer’s value depends on how well it interacts with networks. To enhance this value, designers must improve the performance of networks delivered to users. Fortunat...
—Flash-based Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have become a promising alternative to magnetic Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) thanks to the large improvements in performance, power consumption,...
Web cache replacement algorithms have received a lot of attention during the past years. Though none of the proposed algorithms deals efficiently with all the particularities of t...
Recently, the Network-Attached Secure Disk (NASD) model has become a more widely used technique for constructing large-scale storage systems. However, the security system proposed...