Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
— Over the past few years, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems have become very popular for constructing overlay networks of many nodes (peers) that allow users geographically distributed...
Access to distributed databases containing tuples collected about mobile physical objects requires information about the objects’ trajectories. Existing access control models ca...
Mobile Peer-to-Peer (MP2P) systems consist of mobile peers that collaborate with each other to complete application problems. Information sharing in such environments is a challen...
Huaping Shen, Mary Suchitha Joseph, Mohan Kumar, S...
The role of the operating system (OS) in managing shared resources such as CPU time, memory, peripherals, and even energy is well motivated and understood [23]. Unfortunately, one...