A number of emerging distributed platforms include xed and robust workstations but, like dynamic and pervasive networks, are often built from mobile and resource-constrained device...
This chapter describes Aneka-Federation, a decentralized and distributed system that combines enterprise Clouds, overlay networking, and structured peer-to-peer techniques to crea...
Legacy network file services such as NFS, SMB/CIFS, and AFP changed the way we worked. File services running on crossplatform networks allowed us to save our files on remote syste...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been widely adopted for Instant Messaging (IM) and VoIP telephony both by the enterprise and in service provider systems. Till now, SIP f...
Arup Acharya, Stefan Berger, Chandrasekhar Narayan...
Grids have the potential to revolutionize computing by providing ubiquitous, on demand access to computational services and resources. However, grid systems are extremely large, c...
Alexandre Duarte, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Walf...