The overhead of copying data through the central processor by a message passing protocol limits data transfer bandwidth. If the network interface directly transfers the user'...
Hiroshi Tezuka, Francis O'Carroll, Atsushi Hori, Y...
Abstract. Small-world networks are currently present in many distributed applications and can be built augmenting a base network with long-range links using a probability distribut...
Cache memories have been extensively used to bridge the gap between high speed processors and relatively slower main memories. However, they are sources of predictability problems...
—Skype is one of the most successful VoIP application in the current Internet spectrum. One of the most peculiar characteristics of Skype is that it relies on a P2P infrastructur...
Large-scale distributed systems provide an attractive scalable infrastructure for network applications. However, the loosely-coupled nature of this environment can make data acces...