Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
—In this paper, we propose P3 -coupon, a Prompt and Privacy-preserving electronic coupon distribution system based on a Probabilistic one-ownership forwarding algorithm. In this ...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, D...
This paper studies the performance of a multi-rate mobile ad hoc network (MANET) using an extended ns-2 simulator. A link adaptation algorithm is developed and tested. The multi-r...
— This paper studies multicast application overlay networks in a repeated-game framework. In these overlays, users have both the motivation and the means to alter their position...