Abstract. Optimistic execution techniques are widely used in the field of parallel discrete event simulation. In this paper we discuss the use of optimism as a technique for paral...
This paper introduces large scale content distribution protocols, which are capable of scaling to massive numbers of users and providing low delay end-to-end delivery. Delivery of...
This paper addresses the problem of self localization of mobile devices. In particular, each device combines noisy measurements of its absolute position with distance measurements...
In conventional security systems, protected resources such as documents, hardware devices and software applications follow an On/Off access policy. On, allows to grant access and ...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...