How to rapidly disseminate a large-sized file to many recipients is a fundamental problem in many applications, such as updating software patches and distributing large scientific ...
Progressive mesh streaming is increasingly used in 3D networked applications, such as online games, virtual worlds, and digital museums. To scale such applications to a large numb...
For many Internet applications, the ability to protect the identity of participants in a distributed applications is critical. For such applications, a number of anonymous communi...
As grid computation systems become larger and more complex, manually diagnosing failures in jobs becomes impractical. Recently, machine-learning techniques have been proposed to d...
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