Dining philosophers is a classic scheduling problem for local mutual exclusion on arbitrary conflict graphs. We establish necessary conditions to solve wait-free dining under even...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) provide a scalable solution for data sharing in P2P systems. To ensure high data availability, DHTs typically rely on data replication, yet without ...
This paper presents a scalable, adaptive and timebounded general approach to assure reliable, real-time Node-Failure Detection (NFD) for large-scale, high load networks comprised ...
Matthew Gillen, Kurt Rohloff, Prakash Manghwani, R...
Peer-to-peer grids aim to build computational grids encompassing thousands of sites. To achieve this scale, such systems cannot rely on trust or off-line negotiations among partic...
Miranda Mowbray, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Nazar...
The Public Domain (PD) always serves as an agent to provide better and reliable services and information to citizens. Recent advancements in technology, citizen-demand and new pub...
Marinos Themistocleous, Zahir Irani, Peter E. D. L...