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Resource discovery is an important aspect of many modern large-scale distributed systems. In the past, this problem has been solved using many different approaches, such as a central registry server, flooding-based protocols, and distributed hash tables. In this paper, these three widely used architectures are compared, using measurement results obtained from real implementations run on an Emulab...
Today's trend is to create and share personal content, such as music files, digital photos and digital movies. The result is an explosive growth of a user's personal content archive. Managing such an often distributed collection becomes a complex and time consuming task, which indicates the need for a personal content management system that provides storage space transparently, is quality-aware, and...
Multimedia content sharing services, such as YouTube, usually offer only low quality video streams. Additionally, it is expected the popularity of these services will increase even further in the future. Therefore, current streaming- content delivery architectures, with centralised searching and management components, might not be able to keep up with the ever-growing user bases. In this paper, we...
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