With the advent of Grid computing, more and more highend computational resources become available for use to a scientist. While this opens up new avenues for scientific research,...
Recently, the scheme of parallel downloading (PD) has been adopted by a number of Internet file downloading applications. With the wide deployment of content distribution network...
The majority of the world’s computing resources remains idle most of the time. By using this resource pool, an individual computation may be completed in a fraction of time requ...
During the last few years, the concepts of cluster computing and heterogeneous networked systems have received increasing interest. The popularity of using Java for developing par...
Jameela Al-Jaroodi, Nader Mohamed, Hong Jiang, Dav...
Abstract. The development of network-aware applications, i.e. applications that dynamically adapt to network conditions, has had some success in the domain of multimedia applicatio...