This paper describes a decentralized peer-to-peer model for building a Web crawler. Most of the current systems use a centralized client-server model, in which the crawl is done by...
Distributed Computing, the exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x...
Despite its obvious suitability for distributed multimedia applications, multicasting has not yet found widespread application. Having analyzed shortcomings of today's approac...
Michel Diaz, Roberto Canonico, Luis Costa, Serge F...
The traditional approach to implementing admission control, as exemplified by the Integrated Services proposal in the IETF, uses a signalling protocol to establish reservations a...
Lee Breslau, Edward W. Knightly, Scott Shenker, Io...
Computer systems have become powerful enough to process continuous data streams such as video or animated graphics. While processing power and communication bandwidth of today...