In the mobile wireless computing environment of the future, a large number of users, equipped with low-powered palmtop machines, will query databases over wireless communication ch...
Recent research has shown that server-driven protocols for achieving cache consistency in wide-area network services can perform significantly better than traditional consistency ...
Jian Yin, Lorenzo Alvisi, Michael Dahlin, Arun Iye...
Highly varying job demands generally consist of many short jobs mixed with several long jobs. In this paper, we consider a simple scenario where two job streams with different lev...
Feng Zhang, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Steve Th...
In this paper, we study the use of semantic information to improve performance of transparent query caching for dynamic content web sites. We observe that in dynamic content web a...
In this paper, we examine the prefetching strategies in a peerdriven video on-demand system. In our design, each video is encoded into multiple low bit-rate substreams and copies ...
Yanming Shen, Zhengye Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar, Ke...