We explore the creation of a metacomputer by the aggregation of independent sites. Joining a metacomputer is voluntary, and hence it has to be an endeavor that mutually benefits a...
Abstract This paper proposes efficient resource allocation techniques for a policy-based wireless/wireline interworking architecture, where quality of service (QoS) provisioning an...
Yu Cheng, Wei Song, Weihua Zhuang, Alberto Leon-Ga...
Access control (AC) technology has come a long way from its roots as the means for sharing resources between processes running on a single machine, to a mechanism for regulating t...
Collaborative information systems in a P2P scenario are characterized by a set of independent peers that dynamically need to cooperate by sharing data and services. For effective c...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
In this paper we present a cooperative negotiation protocol that solves a distributed resource allocation problem while conforming to soft real-time constraints in a dynamic envir...