Preface
Figure List
Table List
1 Introduction
1.1 Distributed System
1.2 Contributions of the Book
1.3 Organization of the Book
2 Related Work
2.1 Scheduling Strategy in Distributed Systems
2.2 Technology for Network-based Multimedia Services
2.3 Caching Strategy in Distributed System
3 Multiple-Server Retrieval Scheduling
3.1 Motivation
3.2 System Modeling and Problem Setting
3.3 Multiple-Server/Multiple-Channel Retrieval Strategies
3.4 Performance Evaluation
3.5 "Experiments on the CM Data Retrieval
3.6 Concluding Remarks
4 DIN Scheduling
4.1 Motivation
4.2 Analysis of Scheduling Strategy in Processing Arbitrarily Divisible Load
4. 3 Analysis of Scheduling Strategy in Processing Grain-Based Divisible Load
4.4 Concluding Remarks
5 Variable Bit Rate Caching
5.1 Motivation
5.2 System Modeling and Problem Setting
5. 3 Variable Bit Rate Caching Strategies
5.4 Performance Evaluation
5.5 Concluding Remarks
6 Web Object Caching
6.1 Motivation
6.2 System Modeling and Problem Setting
6.3 Web Object Caching Strategy and Algorithm
6.4 Performance Evaluation
6.5 Concluding Remarks
7 DIN Caching
7.1 Motivation
7.2 System Model
7.3 Analysis Model
7.4 Simulation
7.5 Concluding Remarks
References