Practical applications that employ entropy coding for large alphabets often partition the alphabet set into two or more layers and encode each symbol by using some suitable prefix...
Dan Chen, Yi-Jen Chiang, Nasir D. Memon, Xiaolin W...
—Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. We consider the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting s...
—In wireless relay networks, noise at the relays can be correlated possibly due to common interference or noise propagation from preceding hops. In this work we consider a parall...
Recent developments in the field of object-based fault tolerance and the advent of the first OMG FTCORBA compliant middleware raise new requirements for the design process of dist...
A common technique for improving performance for database query retrieval is to decluster the database among multiple disks so that retrievals can be parallelized. In this paper we...