Abstract. As a developing P2P system, Gnutella has upgraded its protocol to 0.6, which significantly changed the characteristics of its hosts. However, few previous work has given ...
In mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), nodes usually belong to different authorities and pursue different goals. In order to maximize their own performance, nodes in such networks ten...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
Abstract— As an efficient distribution mechanism, peer-topeer technology has become a tremendously attractive solution to offload servers in large scale video streaming applica...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...