Routing algorithms are traditionally evaluated under Poisson-like traffic distributions. This type of traffic is smooth over large time intervals and has been shown not necessaril...
—When dealing with dynamic large-scale topologies such as those underlying peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed virtual environments (DVE), one inescapably reaches the point where eith...
Jean Botev, Markus Esch, Hermann Schloss, Ingo Sch...
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...
—Communications are increasingly relying on peer– to–peer models of interaction in which all participating entities have the same level of authority. Such models allow develo...
Dimitris Glynos, Patroklos G. Argyroudis, Christos...
1 Today many safety-critical applications are based on distributed systems where several computing nodes exchange information via suitable network interconnections. An example of t...