The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number of requests that can be serviced concurrently by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resour...
A large number of practical sensing and actuating applications require immediate notification of rare but urgent events and also fast delivery of time sensitive actuation command...
Garbage collection has proven benefits, including fewer memoryrelated errors and reduced programmer effort. Garbage collection, however, trades space for time. It reclaims memory...
Samuel Z. Guyer, Kathryn S. McKinley, Daniel Framp...
Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
In this paper, we present an unstructured peer-to-peer network called GridMedia for live media streaming employing a push-pull approach. Each node in GridMedia randomly selects it...
Meng Zhang, Jian-Guang Luo, Li Zhao, Shi-Qiang Yan...