In a distributed environment, the presentation of structured, composite multimedia information poses new challenges in dealing with variable bandwidth (BW) requirements and synchro...
In a distributed file system built on network attached storage, client computers access data directly from shared storage, rather than submitting I/O requests through a server. W...
Randal C. Burns, Robert M. Rees, Darrell D. E. Lon...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...
This paper explores the issues and the techniques of enabling multimedia applications for the thin client computing. A prototype of a video communication system based on H.323 fam...
Traditional techniques for a distributed web server design rely on manipulation of central resources, such as routers or DNS services, to distribute requests designated for a sing...