File-sharing applications remain today the most representative and popular realization of the Peerto-Peer paradigm. Large objects receive an increasing amount of interest in such s...
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
—Distributed storage systems provide reliable access to data through redundancy spread over individually unreliable nodes. Application scenarios include data centers, peer-to-pee...
Alexandros G. Dimakis, Brighten Godfrey, Martin J....
Existing authorization mechanisms fail to provide powerful and robust tools for handling security at the scale necessary for today's Internet. These mechanisms are coming unde...