The dramatic growth of computer networks creates both an opportunity and a daunting distributed computing problem for users seeking to build applications that can configure themse...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, James Kauf...
Large scale penetration of digital technologies led them to join roads, electricity, and water distribution, as essential infrastructures of modernity. “Digital convergence” r...
This paper presents a new approach for analyzing the performance of grid scheduling algorithms for tasks with dependencies. Finding the optimal procedures for DAG scheduling in Gr...
Due to the huge amount of integrated devices and sensors in everyday objects ubiquitous systems are in vicinity and will be deployed in large scales in the near future. We expect t...
Local monitoring is an effective mechanism for the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Existing schemes assume the existence of sufficient number of active nodes to carry...