Load balancing is often used to ensure that nodes in a distributed systems are equally loaded. In this paper, we show that for real-time systems, load balancing is not desirable. ...
— Due to the broadcast nature of wireless signals, a wireless transmission intended for a particular destination station can be overheard by other neighboring stations. A focus o...
Distributed storage systems employ replicas or erasure code to ensure high reliability and availability of data. Such replicas create great amount of network traffic that negative...
Background: An important and yet rather neglected question related to bioinformatics predictions is the estimation of the amount of data that is needed to allow reliable predictio...
— The arrival of the P2P model has opened many new avenues for research within the field of distributed computing. This is mainly due to important practical features (such as su...
Gabriel Antoniu, Philip J. Hatcher, Mathieu Jan, D...