Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
It has been shown in the literature that many MAC protocols for wireless networks have a considerable control overhead, which limits their achievable throughput and delay performan...
Yihan Li, Shiwen Mao, Shivendra S. Panwar, Scott F...
Agent-based simulations are an increasingly popular means of exploring and understanding complex social systems. In order to be useful, these simulations must capture a range of a...
David Scerri, Alexis Drogoul, Sarah L. Hickmott, L...
The High Level Architecture (HLA) is a standard for the interoperability and reuse of simulation components, referred to as federates. Large scale HLA-compliant simulations are bu...
Gang scheduling is considered to be a highly effective task scheduling policy for distributed systems. In this paper we present a migration scheme which reduces the fragmentation ...