Parallel processing networks, even full crossbars, that only implement point-to-point and multicast message passing are inefficient for collective communications because multiple ...
This position paper takes as outset experience obtained during development of an object-oriented prototype for a global customer service system. The project involved a large shipp...
We study the performance of packet routing on arrays (or meshes) with bounded buffers in the routing switches, assuming that new packets are continuously inserted at all the nodes....
One purpose of the MBone is to study the performance of multicast and real-time protocols in global conferencing applications. Part of this evaluation is dependent on understandin...
Existing federated database systems (FDBS) provide uniform access to multiple heterogeneous DBS, but do not enable objects to move across the DBS while retaining global identity. ...