The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...
: Most of the Web traffic today uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as the underlying transport protocol. TCP provides several...
Israel Cidon, Raphael Rom, Amit Gupta, Christoph L...
The tuple space coordination model is one of the most interesting coordination models for open distributed systems due to its space and time decoupling and its synchronization pow...
In order to address the high performance I/O needs of HPC and enterprise applications, modern interconnection fabrics, such as InfiniBand and more recently, 10GigE, rely on network...
Secure, fault-tolerant distributed systems are difficult to build, to validate, and to operate. Conservative design for such systems dictates that their security and fault toleran...