We present several optimizations aimed at improving the object location performance of locality-aware structured peer-to-peer overlays. We present simulation results that demonstrate the effectiveness of these optimizations in Tapestry, and discuss their usage of the overall storage resources of the system.

A system to aid composition with analysis, transformation, and re-synthesis of natural sounds is described. Sinusoidal analysis is used to isolate and extract deterministic sounds, and transients are also isolated/ extracted, leaving the stochastic background which is parameterized by wavelet tree analysis. All of these components become templates for the synthesis phase, which is controlled (1...