The cpquantile of an ordered sequenceof data values is the element with rank ‘pn, where n is the total number of values. Accurate estimates of quantiles are required for the sol...
A cost-effective approach to building up scalable Videoon-Demand (VoD) servers is to couple a number of VoD servers together in a cluster. In this article, we study a crucial vide...
Sorting long sequences of keys is a problem that occurs in many different applications. For embedded systems, a uniprocessor software solution is often not applicable due to the l...
The Internet brings us access to multimedia databases with billions of data instances. The massive amount of data available to researchers and application developers brings both o...
Shared nothing multiprocessor archit.ecture is known t.obe more scalable to support very large databases. Compared to other join strategies, a hash-ba9ed join algorithm is particu...