Cooperative peer-to-peer (p2p) applications are designed to share the resources of participating computers for the common good of all users. However, users do not necessarily have ...
Animesh Nandi, Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Atul Singh, Peter D...
A technological challenge that distinguishes group support systems (GSS) from many other technologies is the need to accommodate a variety of race conditions. A race condition occ...
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
The Grid paradigm of accessing heterogeneous distributed resources proved to be extremely effective, as many organizations are relying on Grid middlewares for their computational ...
Paolo Andreetto, Sergio Andreozzi, Antonia Ghisell...
This paper describes a new architecture for achieving network virtualization using virtual NICs (VNICs) as the building blocks. The VNICs can be associated with dedicated and inde...
Sunay Tripathi, Nicolas Droux, Thirumalai Srinivas...