We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
We consider efficient communication schemes based on both network-supported and application-level multicast techniques for content-based publication-subscription systems. We show...
Anton Riabov, Zhen Liu, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu...
As group applications become more prevalent, efficient network utilization becomes a major concern. Multicast transmission may use network bandwidth more efficiently than multiple...
Frank Adelstein, Golden G. Richard III, Loren Schw...
This paper evaluates the bene t of adding a shared cache to the network interface as a means of improving the performance of networked workstations con gured as a distributed shar...
John K. Bennett, Katherine E. Fletcher, William Ev...
Support for efficient multicasting in WLANs can enable new services such as streaming TV channels, radio channels, and visitor's information. With increasing deployments of l...