Abstract-- We argue that heterogeneity is hindering technological innovation in the home--homes differ in terms of their devices and how those devices are connected and used. To ab...
Colin Dixon, Ratul Mahajan, Sharad Agarwal, A. J. ...
Today, critical infrastructures like the power grid are essentially physical processes controlled by computers connected by networks. They are usually as vulnerable as any other i...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Paulo Sousa, Miguel Correia...
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are a new implementation architecture in which a controller machine manages a distributed collection of switches, by instructing them to install ...
Christopher Monsanto, Nate Foster, Rob Harrison, D...
-- Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems a...
Through web service technology, distributed applications can be built in a exible manner, bringing tremendous power to applications on the web. However, this exibility poses sig...