— It is widely recognized that the next-generation wireless networks will integrate heterogeneous wireless technologies. The complementary characteristics of cellular networks an...
This paper presents QLSE (QoS-constrained List Scheduling hEuristics), a Quality of Service-based launch time scheduling algorithm for wide area Grids. QLSE considers applications...
Synchronization is widely considered as an important service in distributed systems which may simplify protocol design. Phase clock is a general synchronization tool that provides ...
With the increased popularity of replica-based services in distributed systems such as the Grid, consistency control among replicas becomes more and more important. To this end, I...
— It is well-understood that increasing redundancy in a system generally improves the availability and dependability of the system. In server clusters, one important form of redu...