Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...
—Networks need to accommodate diverse applications with different Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. New ideas at the physical layer are being developed for this purpose, suc...
Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank, Suhas ...
In this paper, we propose a general cross-layer optimization framework in which we explicitly consider both the heterogeneous and dynamically changing characteristics of delay-sens...
This paper describes the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery service for widearea distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows ...
David L. Oppenheimer, Jeannie R. Albrecht, David A...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) on-demand streaming applications, multimedia content is divided into segments and peers can seek any segments for viewing at anytime. Since different segment...