—Layered streaming is an effective solution to address the receiver heterogeneity in peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia distribution. This paper targets a fundamental challenge in thi...
Initial deployment and subsequent dynamic reconfiguration of a software system is difficult because of the interplay of many interdependent factors, including cost, time, applicat...
Naveed Arshad, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wol...
—this paper studies the influence that task placement may have on the performance of applications, mainly due to the relationship between communication locality and overhead. Thi...
Javier Navaridas, Jose Antonio Pascual, José...
Digital Down Conversion (DDC) is an algorithm, used to lower the amount of samples per second by selecting a limited frequency band out of a stream of samples. A possible DDC algo...
Tjerk Bijlsma, Pascal T. Wolkotte, Gerard J. M. Sm...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...