To address the need for highly configurable and customizable distributed systems, researchers and practitioners are investigating various innovative approaches. One of the promisi...
This paper develops simple cost models for provisioning content distribution networks that use the simple and highly scalable bandwidth skimming protocol for streaming. New insight...
Jussara M. Almeida, Derek L. Eager, Michael C. Fer...
: Sentient Computing gives perception to computing systems so that they can detect, interpret and respond to changing aspects of users' context. The location attribute of a us...
We propose a novel heterogeneous scalable desktop grid system, WaveGrid, which uses a peer-to-peer architecture and can satisfy the needs of applications with fastturnaround requi...
— Many applications that make use of sensor networks require secure communication. Because asymmetric-key solutions are difficult to implement in such a resource-constrained env...
Patrick Traynor, Heesook Choi, Guohong Cao, Sencun...