Many emerging mobile wireless applications depend upon secure group communications, in which data is encrypted and the group's data encryption key is changed whenever a membe...
Chun Zhang, Brian DeCleene, James F. Kurose, Donal...
Sensor nodes are often used to collect data from locations inaccessible or hazardous for humans. As they are not under normal supervision, these nodes are particularly susceptible...
A task-based execution provides a universal approach to dynamic load balancing for irregular applications. Tasks are arbitrary units of work that are created dynamically at runtim...
: Legend says that Archimedes remarked, on the discovery of the lever, “Give me a place to stand, and I can move the world.” Today, computing pervades all aspects of science an...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...