This paper considers the problem of packet-mode scheduling of input queuedswitches. Packets have variable lengths, and are divided into cells of unit length. Each packet arrives t...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...
The efficacy of data aggregation in sensor networks is a function of the degree of spatial correlation in the sensed phenomenon. While several data aggregation (i.e., routing with...
Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...
The increasing importance of search engines to commercial web sites has given rise to a phenomenon we call “web spam”, that is, web pages that exist only to mislead search eng...