Name services are critical for mapping logical resource names to physical resources in large-scale distributed systems. The Domain Name System (DNS) used on the Internet, however,...
A practical problem faced by users of metacomputers and computational grids is: If my computation can move from one system to another, how can I ensure that my data will still be ...
This paper is on the construction of a server subsystem in a client/server system in an application context where the number of potential clients can be arbitrarily large. The imp...
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
We analyze the behavior of the Ethernet in networks with a small number of active stations, and describe what is known as the Ethernet capture effect, where a station transmits co...