Network-based information systems use well-defined standards to ensure interoperability and also have a tightly coupled relationship between their internal data representation an...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
: Wide area network (WAN) -based distributed computing (DC) has become an active field of research, especially under the label of grid computing. On the other hand, research on WAN...
An architecture and associated protocols are presented for managing multicast addresses and performing connection control for applications that use multicast communication faciliti...
In the ubiquitous computing environment, we believe that P2P-based context-aware application utilizing sensing data is important. However, since sensors are not placed under the c...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...