Recent research has shown that one can use Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) to build scalable, robust and efficient applications. One question that is often left unanswered is that ...
In the application layer of networks, many application servers are middleboxes in the paths of messages from source to destination. Applications require, as a basic coordination me...
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...
In wireless sensor networks, poor performance or unexpected behavior may be experienced for several reasons, such as trivial deterioration of sensing hardware, unsatisfactory impl...
Marco Avvenuti, Paolo Corsini, Paolo Masci, Alessi...
In this paper we present a methodology and set of tools which assist the construction of applications from components, by separating the issues of transmission policy from compone...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, ...