Failure detectors are fundamental building blocks in distributed systems. Multi-node failure detectors, where the detector is tasked with monitoring N other nodes, play a critical...
TinyOS applications are built with software components that communicate through narrow interfaces. Since components enable finegrained code reuse, this approach has been successf...
The fast spreading worm is becoming one of the most serious threats to today’s networked information systems. A fast spreading worm could infect hundreds of thousands of hosts w...
Songqing Chen, Xinyuan Wang, Lei Liu, Xinwen Zhang
— Networks employ link protection to achieve fast recovery from link failures. While the first link failure can be protected using link protection, there are several alternative...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...