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FGCS
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
The wandering token: Congestion avoidance of a shared resource
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...
Augusto Ciuffoletti
GIS
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Towards location-based social networking services
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Chi-Yin Chow, Jie Bao 0003, Mohamed F. Mokbel
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
16 years 24 days ago
ASAP: an AS-Aware Peer-Relay Protocol for High Quality VoIP
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has been successfully applied in Internet telephony or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), such as the Skype system, where P2P is used for both sear...
Shansi Ren, Lei Guo, Xiaodong Zhang
JVCIR
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Layered H.264 video transmission with hierarchical QAM
In multimedia communication systems, channel bandwidth and probability of error are the two main limitations that affect the quality of service. Therefore, in applications such as...
Mohammad Mahdi Ghandi, Mohammed Ghanbari
OSDI
2002
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
FARSITE: Federated, Available, and Reliable Storage for an Incompletely Trusted Environment
Farsite is a secure, scalable file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but is physically distributed among a set of untrusted computers. Farsite provides ...
Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Miguel Castro, Gera...