Abstract. The unprecedented growth and increased importance of geographically distributed spatial data has created a strong need for efficient sharing of such data. Interestingly, ...
Prefetching has been widely used to improve system performance in mobile environments. Since prefetching consumes system resources, such as bandwidth and power, it is important to...
This paper proposes a novel method of achieving fast networking in hosted virtual machine (VM) environments. This method, called socket-outsourcing, replaces the socket layer in a...
The project DIANE is an EU-funded project in the ACTS Program and started in September 1995. The goal of DIANE is to establish a service, which enables an user to annotate anythin...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...