The spherical harmonic (SPHARM) description is a powerful surface modeling technique that can model arbitrarily shaped but simply connected three dimensional (3D) objects. Because...
Heng Huang, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, J...
— The nature of Grid and distributed computing implies communication between heterogeneous systems over a wide and ever-changing variety of network environments. Often large amou...
John Bresnahan, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian T. Foster
The cooperation of end users can be exploited to boost the performance of high-bandwidth multicast. While intraoverlay cooperation, the mechanism for cooperation within a single o...
Cooperative checkpointing uses global knowledge of the state and health of the machine to improve performance and reliability by dynamically deciding when to skip checkpoint reque...
Among different wireless LAN technologies 802.11a has recently become popular due to its high throughput, large system capacity, and relatively long range. In this paper, we prop...