Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. However, efficiently mat...
Jik-Soo Kim, Peter J. Keleher, Michael A. Marsh, B...
Many higher education institutions are searching for cost effective tools for the delivery of a feature rich, synchronous online learning environment. While there are several comm...
IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
With the emergence of the e-Catalog, there has been an increasingly wide application of commodities query in distributed environment in the field of e-commerce. But e-Catalog is o...
Donglin Chen, Xiaofei Li, Yueling Liang, Jun Zhang
Multimedia database systems (MMDBSs) have to be capable to handle efficiently time-dependent and timeindependent data, and to support Quality-of-Service (QoS). To support continuo...