Abstract. Rent's rule and related concepts of connectivity such as dimensionality, line-length distributions, and separators have found great use in fundamental studies of di ...
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...
Abstract. As data volumes processed by large-scale distributed dataintensive applications grow at high-speed, an increasing I/O pressure is put on the underlying storage service, w...
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
It is envisaged that services and applications will migrate to a cloud-computing paradigm where thin-clients on userdevices access, over the network, applications hosted in data c...
Fang Hao, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, Haoyu S...