—The widespread use of tracking and localization systems may be hindered by centralized server platforms whose performance can hardly scale up to the needs of very large numbers ...
Marco Picone, Michele Amoretti, Francesco Zanichel...
With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
In this paper, we show through detailed simulations that BitTorrent can be used to assist a server or content distribution network (CDN) for large-scale streaming delivery. Speciï...
Ryan LaFortune, Christopher D. Carothers, William ...
With the evolution of technology, Grids cannot be considered any more solely as a federation of a modest number of powerful cluster computers. Trends show that future Grids will i...
Distributed Hashtables (DHTs) provide a scalable method of associating file-hashes with a particular location in a distributed network environment. Modifying DHTs directly to suppo...