Distributed applications that lack a central, trustworthy authority for control and validation are properly termed decentralized. Multiple, independent agencies, or "partners...
Girish Suryanarayana, Justin R. Erenkrantz, Scott ...
In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
The Coalition Peering Domain (CPD) is a recent innovation within the field of mesh networking. It facilitates the management of community-area networks in a distributed and scala...
Daniele Quercia, Manish Lad, Stephen Hailes, Licia...
We suggest that a combination of randomization and gossip communication can be used to overcome scalability barriers that limit the utility of many technologies for distributed sys...
In this paper we propose an analytical approach for estimating the reliability of a component-based software. This methodology assumes that the software components are heterogeneo...
Jung-Hua Lo, Sy-Yen Kuo, Michael R. Lyu, Chin-Yu H...