One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...
Dynamic module replacement — the ability to hot swap a component’s implementation at runtime — is fundamental to supporting evolutionary change in long-lived and highlyavail...
As distributed surveillance networks are deployed over larger areas and in increasingly busy environments, limiting the computation, bandwidth, and human attention burdens imposed...
Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distri...
In this paper, we propose a novel multi-point video conferencing system through error-prone channels, where the aggregation of multiple video streams and resource allocation are p...