An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is ...
— Security and QoS are two main issues for a successful wide deployment of multicast services. For instance, in a multicast streaming application, a receiver would require a data...
Patching, upgrading, and maintaining operating system software is a growing management complexity problem that can result in unacceptable system downtime. We introduce AutoPod, a ...
Research in sensor networks, continuous queries (CQ), and other domains has been motivated by powerful applications that aim to aggregate, assimilate, and interact with scores of ...
Jonathan Ledlie, Jeffrey Shneidman, Matt Welsh, Me...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...