—Popular online services such as social networks, e-commerce and bidding are routinely hosted in large-scale data centers. Group communication systems (e.g., multicast) and distr...
Karthik Nagaraj, Hitesh Khandelwal, Charles Edwin ...
Metacomputing allows the exploitation of geographically seperate, heterogenous networks and resources. Most metacomputers are feature rich and carry a long, complicated installati...
—“Network Storage and System Virtualization Technologies” is an up-to-date course opened by the school of electronics engineering and computer science of Peking University. T...
Proof of a user's identity is not always a sufficient means for making an authorization decision. In an increasing set of circumstances, knowledge of physical location provide...
Patrick Traynor, Joshua Schiffman, Thomas F. La Po...
This paper concerns the design of mechanisms for online scheduling in which agents bid for access to a re-usable resource such as processor time or wireless network access. Each a...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mo...