Virtualization essentially enables multiple operating systems and applications to run on one physical computer by multiplexing hardware resources. A key motivation for applying vi...
Peer-to-peer technique has now become one of the major techniques to exchange digital content between peers of the same interest. However, as the amount of peer-topeer traffic inc...
Background: The Smith-Waterman algorithm for local sequence alignment is more sensitive than heuristic methods for database searching, but also more time-consuming. The fastest ap...
Programming in a distributed system is fraught with potential difficulties caused, in part, by the physical distribution of the system itself. By making the distribution of the sy...
In the Internet today, users and applications must often make decisions based on the performance they expect to receive from other Internet hosts. For example, users can often vie...