In location-based services, it is common for a user to issue a query based on his/her current position. One such example is "find the available cabs within two miles of my cu...
Snapshot Isolation (SI), is a multi-version concurrency control algorithm introduced in [BBGMOO95] and later implemented by Oracle. SI avoids many concurrency errors, and it never ...
Alan Fekete, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Patrick E. O'Nei...
— In this paper, a novel collision-free MAC scheme supporting multimedia applications is proposed for wireless mesh backbone. The proposed scheme is distributed, simple, and scal...
— Media streaming applications are becoming very popular in the Internet world. Since they mainly rely on a not scalable client/server model, the P2P model is receiving more and ...
Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security po...