In this book, design, analysis, and experimental verification of scheduling and caching strategies for data to improve the quality of service in distributed systems/networks, whose application examples are network-based multimedia systems and DIN, are carried out.

Preface

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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

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