This paper addresses the efficient processing of top-k queries in wide-area distributed data repositories where the index lists for the attribute values (or text terms) of a query...
Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafillou, Gerhard Wei...
This paper describes a solution to extend the Managed Bandwidth Service (MBS), which is provided on a backbone network using MPLS VPNs, to non-MPLS domains and also evaluates it. ...
—With the proliferation of online multimedia content, the popularity of multimedia streaming technology, and the establishment of MPEG video coding standards, it is important to ...
The ATM technology has been specified to provide users with the ability to request quality of service (QoS) for their applicatio ns and to enable high speed communications. Howeve...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, a receiver needs to be matched with multiple senders, because peers have limited capacity and reliability. Efficient peer matching can reduce the co...