Smartcards are the most secure portable computing device today. They have been used successfully in applications involving money, proprietary and personal data (such as banking, h...
Philippe Pucheral, Luc Bouganim, Patrick Valduriez...
Websites serve content both through Web Services as well as through user-viewable webpages. While the consumers of web-services are typically ‘machines’, webpages are meant fo...
A fault-scalable service can be configured to tolerate increasing numbers of faults without significant decreases in performance. The Query/Update (Q/U) protocol is a new tool t...
Michael Abd-El-Malek, Gregory R. Ganger, Garth R. ...
— This paper presents the architecture, design and implementation of an email server that runs on a bare PC without an operating system or hard-disk. In addition to providing sta...
George H. Ford Jr., Ramesh K. Karne, Alexander L. ...
Peer-to-peer content dissemination applications suffer immensely from freeriders, i.e., nodes that do not provide their fair share. The Tit-for-Tat (TfT) incentives have received ...