We propose a peer-to-peer system that supports distributed virtual world applications. For these applications, the connections between directly neighboring peers are of the utmost ...
Abstract. We study the relation between PageRank and other parameters of information networks such as in-degree, out-degree, and the fraction of dangling nodes. We model this relat...
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
The performance of an interconnection network is measured by two metrics: average latency and peak network throughput. Network throughput is the total number of packets delivered ...
High availability plays an important role in heterogeneous clusters, where processors operate at different speeds and are not continuously available for processing. Existing sched...