This paper investigates fault tolerance issues in Bistro, a wide area upload architecture. In Bistro, clients first upload their data to intermediaries, known as bistros. A destin...
Context-aware computing is a computing paradigm in which applications can take advantage of contextual information. Quality of network connection is a very important factor for mob...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing is the hottest, fastest growing application on the Internet. When designing Gnutella-like applications, the most important consideration is the sca...
Using a single traditional gang scheduling algorithm cannot provide the best performance for all workloads and parallel architectures. A solution for this problem is the use of...
Many real-world graphs have been shown to be scale-free— vertex degrees follow power law distributions, vertices tend to cluster, and the average length of all shortest paths is...