The evaluation of QoS requirements is one of the critical functions that span both the design and the run-time phases of QoS management. This paper presents an architecture for Qo...
Providing scalable video services in a peer-to-peer (P2P) environment is challenging. Since videos are typically large and require high communication bandwidth for delivery, many ...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...
Web caching has been well accepted as a viable method for saving network bandwidth and reducing user access latency. To provide cache sharing on a large scale, hierarchical web cac...
Wenzhong Li, Kun Wu, Xu Ping, Ye Tao, Sanglu Lu, D...
This article describes a mathematical framework for characterizing cooperativity in complex systems subject to evolutionary pressures. This framework uses three foundational compo...