A true video-on-demand(TVOD) system lets users view any video program, at any time, and perform any VCR functions, but its peruser video delivery cost is too expensive. A near vide...
Distributed programming is applicable in a wide range of domains such as control systems. These systems are subject to mutable environments and must also provide a time varying ad...
Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo, Reinaldo...
With the evolving availability of wireless communication servicesand of affordable mobile devices such as notebooks or Personal Digital Assistants, mobile computing is becoming wid...
We present a flexible framework for throttling attackers in peerto-peer media streaming systems. In such systems, selfish nodes (e.g., free riders) and malicious nodes (e.g., DoS ...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...