Traditional reliable multicast protocols depend on assumptions about flow control and reliability mechanisms, and they suffer from a kind of interference between these mechanisms. ...
In a distributed environment the utilization of file buffer caches in different clients may vary greatly. Cooperative caching is used to increase cache utilization by coordinatin...
Song Jiang, Fabrizio Petrini, Xiaoning Ding, Xiaod...
Synchronous groupware is the class of applications in which two or more people collaborate in what they perceive to be real time. Most previous efforts to deploy synchronous group...
Wireless sensor network applications, similarly to other distributed systems, often require a scalable time synchronization service enabling data consistency and coordination. Thi...
Abstract—Time synchronization is a key component in numerous wireless sensor network applications. Most of the current software based time synchronization approaches suffer from ...