An electronic cash system allows users to withdraw coins, represented as bit strings, from a bank or broker, and spend those coins anonymously at participating merchants, so that ...
Ivan Osipkov, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper...
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...
The goal of the work described in this paper is to design and build a scalable infrastructure for executing grid applications on a widely distributed set of resources. Such grid i...
Jik-Soo Kim, Beomseok Nam, Michael A. Marsh, Peter...
Unbalanced energy consumption is an inherent problem in wireless sensor networks where some nodes may be overused and die out early, resulting in a short network lifetime. In this...
Effective task scheduling and deployment is hard to achieve in a Grid environment, where computing resources are heterogamous and shared between local and Grid users without a cen...