Operating rooms are regarded as the most costly hospital facilities. Due to rising costs and decreasing reimbursements, it is necessary to optimize the efficiency of the operating...
Adaptive Time Warp protocols in the literature are usually based on a pre-defined analytic model of the system, expressed as a closed form function that maps system state to cont...
We are investigating strategies for using replication to design and implement highly reliable peer-to-peer systems. In particular, we are comparing the use of whole object and blo...
Ranjita Bhagwan, David Moore, Stefan Savage, Geoff...
This paper investigates communication strategies for interconnecting heterogeneous parallel systems. As the speed of processors and parallel systems keep on increasing over the ye...
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...