While database workloads consume a major fraction of the cycles in today's machines, there are only a few public-domain performance studies that characterize in detail how these workloads exercise the machines. This fact ...

Unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks suffer from the increased volume of traffic produced by flooding. Methods such as random walks or dynamic querying managed to limit the traffic at the cost of reduced network coverage. ...

Intermediaries are software entities, deployed on hosts of the wireline and wireless network, that mediate the interaction between clients and servers of the World Wide Web. In this paper we present a survey of intermediaries, ...

One important problem in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is searching and retrieving the correct information. However, existing searching mechanisms in pure peer-to-peer networks are inefficient due to the decentralized nature ...

The popularity of the Web as a universal access mechanism for network information has created the need for developing web-based DBMS client/server applications. However, the current commercial applet-based approaches for ...

Scalability is a fundamental problem for information systems when the amount of managed data increases. Peer to Peer systems are usually used to solve scalability problems as centralized approaches do not scale without ...

The emerging Peer-to-Peer (P2P) model has become a very powerful and attractive paradigm for developing Internet-scale systems for sharing resources, including files and documents. The distributed nature of these systems, ...