: As data and services are increasingly distributed in the network, rather than stored in a fixed location, one can imagine a scenario in which the Personal Computer, intended as a...
Large scale distributed real time and embedded (DRE) applications are complex entities that are often composed of different subsystems and have stringent Quality of Service (QoS) r...
Praveen Kaushik Sharma, Joseph P. Loyall, George T...
The resource availability in Grids is generally unpredictable due to the autonomous and shared nature of the Grid resources and stochastic nature of the workload resulting in a be...
—The growth of the Internet in the last years has been pushed by increasing requirements in terms of capacity, security and reliability. Moreover, improvements in multimedia appl...
In mobile ad-hoc peer-to-peer (M-P2P) networks, a large percentage of the mobile peers typically do not provide any service to the network, thereby motivating incentive schemes for...