A number of commercial peer-to-peer systems for live streaming, such as PPLive, Joost, LiveStation, SOPCast, TVants, etc. have been introduced in recent years. The behavior of the...
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
The proliferation of new modes of communication and collaboration has resulted in an explosion of digital information. To turn this challenge into an opportunity, the IT industry ...
In times of web 2.0 and its strong focus on user interaction in business models, entrepreneurs and investors of internet businesses often back up their ambitious growth expectatio...