We present the Network File System with Cluster Delegation (NFS-CD), an enhancement to the NFSv4 that reduces server load and increases the scalability of distributed file systems ...
—It has been widely acknowledged that online file hosting systems within the “cloud” of the Internet have provided valuable services to end users who wish to share files of a...
Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
We introduce HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer), a distributed cryptographic system that allows a set of servers to prove to a client that a stored file is intact and r...
Geographic information systems use databases to map keywords to places. These databases are currently most often created by using a top-down approach based on the geographic defini...
A new application of tuple-space-based coordination systems is in knowledge communication and representation. This knowledge is being published on the Web (the so-called “Semant...
Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert Tolksdorf, Alan Wood, R...