Abstract--Current video-on-demand (VoD) systems can be classified into two categories: 1) true-VoD (TVoD) and 2) near-VoD (NVoD). TVoD systems allocate a dedicated channel for ever...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Sensor network which operates on battery are used to gather data in a variety of environments. The data collected by each node is communicated through the network to the sink, whi...
—Online storage systems that provide versatile and convenient platforms for content distribution have attracted significant attention over the Internet. To guarantee adequate le...
Group communication systems are powerful building blocks that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. Such systems generally run in an asynchronous ...