This paper takes a known approach for scheduling and admission control in integrated services networks1 , the Priority Token Bank (PTB), whose mechanism and performance have been ...
The problem of optimal data gathering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is addressed by means of optimization techniques. The goal of this work is to lay the foundations to devel...
—A multi-party contract signing (MPCS) protocol allows a set of parties to exchange messages with each other to reach a state in which either each of them has a pre-agreed contra...
Next-generation e-Science applications will require the ability to transfer information at high data rates between distributed computing centers and data repositories. A LambdaGri...
Cluster computing environments built from commodity hardware have provided a cost-effective solution for many scientific and high-performance applications. Likewise, middleware te...