Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are receiving increasing attention in a variety of current applications. In this paper, we concentrate on applications where a mobile user queries peers...
—Mobile terminals with built-in GPS receivers are becoming more and more available, thus the public deployment of location-based services (LBS) becomes feasible. Upcoming LBS are...
Performance critical services over Internet often rely on geographically distributed architectures of replicated servers. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are a typical example whe...
—Federation of geo-distributed cloud services is a trend in cloud computing which, by spanning multiple data centers at different geographical locations, can provide a cloud plat...
Yu Wu, Chuan Wu, Bo Li 0001, Linquan Zhang, Zongpe...
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...