Abstract. In this paper we report on preliminary work and architectural design carried out in the "Data Management" work package in the International Data Grid project. O...
-- Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems a...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...
Abstract—With increasing popularity of media enabled handhelds, the need for high data-rate services for mobile users is evident. Large-scale Wireless LANs (WLANs) can provide su...
Network proximity and latency estimation is an important component in discovering and locating services and applications. With the growing number of services and service providers...