Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Networks often form the core of many users’ spatial databases. Networks are used to support the rapid navigation and analysis of linearly connected data such as that found in tra...
—The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problem...
Background: Key management in a mobile ad hoc environment is complicated by frequently partitioning network topology. Recently proposed key management systems (KMSs) provide limit...
George C. Hadjichristofi, William Joseph Adams, Na...
Background: Protein interactions support cell organization and mediate its response to any specific stimulus. Recent technological advances have produced large data-sets that aim ...