A number of distributed applications require communication services with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. The QoS provisioning issue in the Internet has been addressed by the I...
Roberto Canonico, Simon Pietro Romano, Mauro Selli...
The tradeoffs between consistency, performance, and availability are well understood. Traditionally, however, designers of replicated systems have been forced to choose from eithe...
Freeblock scheduling is a new approach to utilizing more of disks' potential media bandwidths. By filling rotational latency periods with useful media transfers, 20{50% of a ...
Christopher R. Lumb, Jiri Schindler, Gregory R. Ga...
The paper focuses on coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable array architectures promising performance and flexibility for different challenging application areas, e. g. future ...
The development of distributed applications is rapidly growing and some applications, like those which manipulate graphics, images and sounds, need special care. In this paper, we ...