Recently, decentralized publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems have gained popularity as a scalable asynchronous messaging paradigm over wide-area networks. Most existing pub-sub sys...
Jianxia Chen, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, David Lowenthal
We propose a new approach to ensure privacy in location based services, without requiring any support from a"trusted" entity. We observe that users of location based ser...
As data centers become more and more central in Internet communications, both research and operations communities have begun to explore how to better design and manage them. In th...
Abstract. Aggregation is an important building block of modern distributed applications, allowing the determination of meaningful properties (e.g. network size, total storage capac...
Let X be a discrete random variable with support S and f : S S be a bijection. Then it is wellknown that the entropy of X is the same as the entropy of f(X). This entropy preserva...