We consider systems for data sharing among heterogeneous peers related by a network of schema mappings. Each peer has a locally controlled and edited database instance, but wants ...
Todd J. Green, Grigoris Karvounarakis, Zachary G. ...
—This work presents a closed-form expression for characterizing the spread of static worm-scanning strategies through a mean-field approximation. Our model can both accurately c...
— The current access point (AP) association schemes in wireless LANs, such as IEEE 802.11, cause an unbalanced load which reduces the performance of both the entire network and i...
The large and growing number of computing devices used by individuals has caused the challenges of distributed storage to take on increased importance. In addition to desktops and...
Daniel Peek, Douglas B. Terry, Venugopalan Ramasub...
Millions of Internet users are using large-scale peerto-peer (P2P) networks to share content files today. Many other mission-critical applications, such as Internet telephony and...