— While multicast has been studied extensively in many domains such as content streaming and file sharing, there is little research applying it to synchronous collaborations invo...
— In the last years peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications are emerging as potentially important structures for information, content management and distribution. The most popular P2P ap...
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, ...
Load balancing in packet-switched networks is a task of ever-growing importance. Network traffic properties, such as the Zipf-like flow length distribution and bursty transmissio...
The previous research on cluster-based servers has focused on homogeneous systems. However, real-life clusters are almost invariably heterogeneous in terms of the performance, cap...
Taliver Heath, Bruno Diniz, Enrique V. Carrera, Wa...
A principle task in parallel and distributed systems is to reduce the communication load in the interconnection network, as this is usually the major bottleneck for the performanc...