A variety of performance-enhancing techniques, such as striping, mirroring, and rotational data replication, exist in the disk array literature. Given a fixed budget of disks, one...
Xiang Yu, Benjamin Gum, Yuqun Chen, Randolph Y. Wa...
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
Security functions such as access control, encryption and authentication are typically left up to applications on the modern Internet. There is no unified system to implement thes...
Computing history has shown that open, multi-layer hardware and software stacks encourage innovation and bring costs down. Only recently this trend is meeting the networking world...
Marcelo Ribeiro Nascimento, Christian Esteve Rothe...
In orthodontics, retraction springs made of metallic wires are often used to move a tooth with respect to another by the virtue of the spring back effect. Specially selected form o...