: Nowadays, a central topic in database science is the need of an integrated access to large amounts of data provided by various information sources whose contents are strictly rel...
The mechanisms and design principles needed for achieving optimized handoff for mobile Internet services are poorly understood and need better analysis. This paper contributes to ...
A key challenge faced by peer-to-peer(P2P) video-on- demand (VoD) systems is their ability, or lack thereof, to provide DVD-like functionality, such as pause, forward and backward ...
: This work investigates the integration of heterogeneous resources, such as data and programs, in a fully distributed peer-to-peer mediation architecture. The challenge in making ...
: As Century 21 just opened up, it is a fitting time to reflect on the evolution of the fault-tolerant distributed computing technology that occurred in the last century. The autho...