stractions are extensively used to understand and solve challenging computational problems in various scientific and engineering domains. They have particularly gained prominence...
MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to ge...
A flooding-based search mechanism is often used in unstructured P2P systems. Although a flooding-based search mechanism is simple and easy to implement, it is vulnerable to overla...
A Replica Location Service (RLS) allows registration and discovery of data replicas. In earlier work, we proposed an RLS framework and described the performance and scalability of...
First Come First Served (FCFS) is a policy that is accepted for implementing fairness in a number of application domains such as scheduling in Operating Systems, scheduling web req...