The NAT/Firewall NSIS Signaling Layer Protocol (NAT/Firewall NSLP) is a path-coupled signaling protocol for explicit Network Address Translator and firewall configuration within...
Current peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming systems often assume that hosts are cooperative. However, this may not be true in the open environment of the Internet. In this paper, we disc...
Xing Jin, S.-H. Gary Chan, Wai-Pun Ken Yiu, Yongqi...
Computational grids and grid middleware offer unprecedented computational power and storage capacity, and thus, have opened the possibility of solving problems that were previousl...
Suchuan Dong, Nicholas T. Karonis, George E. Karni...
Most research on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) assumes ephemeral, lightly loaded deployments. Each node has a lifetime of a few hours and initiates a lookup once every few second...
A software system interacts with its environment through system interfaces. Robustness of software systems are governed by various temporal properties related to these interfaces,...