With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly incre...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Differentiated services architectures are scalable solutions for providing class-based Quality of Service (QoS) over packet switched networks. While qualitative attributes of the o...
ATM-based integrated services networks are likely to rely on the Virtaal Path (VP) concept as an intermediate resource management layer wherein key decisions concerning resource a...
This paper presents HyMoNet, a peer-to-peer hybrid multicast overlay network for efficient live media streaming. The system comprises two parts: service infrastructure and user sp...