Many world wide web applications require access, transfer, and synchronization of large multimedia data objects (MDOs) (such as, audio, video, and images) across the communication...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
We comparethe performance of software-supported shared memory on a general-purpose network to hardware-supported shared memory on a dedicated interconnect. Up to eight processors,...
Alan L. Cox, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, ...
u s e s t h e p r i m a r y c o p y r e p l i c a t i o nAbstract technique [1, 26, 27]. In this method, client calls are directed to a single primary server, which communicatesThi...
Barbara Liskov, Robert Gruber, Paul Johnson, Liuba...
An explicit slice-based mode type selection scheme for use in H.264/AVC has recently been developed, which preserves the coding efficiency of H.264/AVC without requiring any modif...