To support various bandwidth requirements for mobile multimedia services for future heterogeneous mobile environments, a transcoding video proxy is usually necessary to provide ad...
Obtaining consistent bandwidth with predictable latency from disk-based storage systems has proven difficult due to the storage system’s inability to understand Quality of Serv...
Abstract. E-Negotiation is the process of conducting negotiations between business partners using electronic means. The interest in e-negotiation is motivated by its potential to p...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...