Social networking and content sharing service providers, e.g., Facebook and Google Maps, enable their users to upload and share a variety of user-generated content, including locat...
Man Lung Yiu, Gabriel Ghinita, Christian S. Jensen...
This paper presents an extensive statistical study and analysis of the effects of channel delays in the current (best-effort) Internet on underflow events in MPEG-4 video streamin...
In many recent applications, data are continuously being disseminated from a source to a set of servers. In this paper, we propose a cost-based approach to construct dissemination...
Sensor networks and other distributed information systems (such as the Web) must frequently access data that has a high per-attribute acquisition cost, in terms of energy, latency...
Amol Deshpande, Carlos Guestrin, Wei Hong, Samuel ...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...