Emerging IPTV technology uses source-specific IP multicast to deliver TV programs to the end-users. To provide timely and reliable services over the error-prone DSL access networ...
Unstructured peer-to-peer infrastructure has been widely employed to support large-scale distributed applications. Many of these applications, such as locationbased services and m...
Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications...
Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast ...
Top-k queries are a popular type of query in Wireless Sensor Networks. Typical solutions rely on coordinated root-tonodes and nodes-to-root messages and on maintaining filters at...
Johannes Niedermayer, Mario A. Nascimento, Matthia...