—A number of analytical models exists that capture various properties of the BitTorrent protocol. However, until now virtually all of these models have been based on the assumpti...
Michel Meulpolder, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. E...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
Distributed systems with multiple interacting services, such as distributed e-commerce systems, are suitable targets for malicious attacks because of the potential financial impac...
Social media such as blogs, Facebook, Flickr, etc., presents data in a network format rather than classical IID distribution. To address the interdependency among data instances, ...