The Internet is a hierarchical architecture comprising heterogeneous entities of privately owned infrastructures, where higher level Internet service providers (ISPs) supply conne...
Sam C. M. Lee, Joe W. J. Jiang, John C. S. Lui, Da...
Large-scale storage systems often hold data for multiple applications and users. A problem in such systems is isolating applications and users from each other to prevent their wor...
Theodore M. Wong, Richard A. Golding, Caixue Lin, ...
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...
This paper presents middleware enabling mutual and equal transfer of computing power between individuals, as in the original idea behind P2P, while also supporting large-scale dis...
Protocols designed to provide error-free communications over lossy links, at both data link and transport layers, commonly employ the idea of sliding windows, which is based on th...