Recently, a server-less video-on-demand architecture has been proposed which can completely eliminate costly dedicated video servers and yet is highly scalable and reliable. Due to...
Contour mapping is a crucial part of many wireless sensor network applications. Many efforts have been made to avoid collecting data from all the sensors in the network and produc...
In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Concurrency control is a core component in optimistic replication systems. To detect concurrent updates, the system associates each replicated object with metadata, such as, versi...
Abstract—In wireless sensor networks, asynchronous sleepwake scheduling protocols can significantly reduce energy consumption without incurring the communication overhead for cl...