Abstract. Since the appearance of public-key cryptography in the seminal DiffieHellman paper, many new schemes have been proposed and many have been broken. Thus, the simple fact t...
AdvanceobjectorientedcomputingplatformsuchastheCommonObjectRequestBrokerArchitecture (CORBA) provides a conducive and standardized framework for the development of distributed appl...
Hung Keng Pung, Wynne Hsu, Bhawani S. Sapkota, Law...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
— Modern networks provide a QoS (quality of service) model to go beyond best-effort services, but current QoS models are oriented towards low-level network parameters (e.g., band...