The two main techniques of improving I/O performance of Object Oriented Database Management Systems(OODBMS) are clustering and buffer replacement. Clustering is the placement of o...
State of the art, real-time, rate-adaptive, multimedia applications adjust their transmission rate to match the available network capacity. Unfortunately, this source-based rate-a...
Most microprocessor chips today use an out-of-order instruction execution mechanism. This mechanism allows superscalar processors to extract reasonably high levels of instruction ...
XML has already become the de facto standard for specifying and exchanging data on the Web. However, XML is by nature verbose and thus XML documents are usually large in size, a fa...
Wilfred Ng, Wai Yeung Lam, Peter T. Wood, Mark Lev...
Protocols designed to provide error-free communications over lossy links, at both data link and transport layers, commonly employ the idea of sliding windows, which is based on th...