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...
Video prefetching has been proposed recently for the transmission of variable-bit-rate(VBR) video over a packetswitched network. The objective of these protocols is to prefetch fu...
In this paper, we address the problem of choosing a disk admission algorithm for continuous media streams where each stream may have a di erent bit rate, and more importantly, whe...
Dwight J. Makaroff, Gerald W. Neufeld, Norman C. H...
In this paper we describe novel techniques that make it possible to build an industrial-strength tool for automating the choice of indexes in the physical design of a SQL database...
Geo-replicated services need an effective way to direct client requests to a particular location, based on performance, load, and cost. This paper presents DONAR, a distributed sy...
Patrick Wendell, Joe Wenjie Jiang, Michael J. Free...