The exponential growth of data demands scalable infrastructures capable of indexing and searching rich content such as text, music, and images. A promising direction is to combine...
Previous scalable protocols for downloading large, popular files from a single server include batching and cyclic multicast. With batching, clients wait to begin receiving a reque...
Physical boundaries have caused software systems to become less monolithic and more distributed. The trend is progressing to a point where software systems will consist of numerous...
Modern corporations operate in an extremely complex environment and strongly depend on all kinds of information resources across the enterprise. Unfortunately, with the growth of ...
Abstract. The ever-increasing popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems provides a strong motivation for designing a dependable P2P system. Dependability in P2P systems can be viewe...