Existing distributed hash tables provide efficient mechanisms for storing and retrieving a data item based on an exact key, but are unsuitable when the search key is similar, but ...
FUSE is a lightweight failure notification service for building distributed systems. Distributed systems built with FUSE are guaranteed that failure notifications never fail. When...
John Dunagan, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jo...
We consider the problem of interconnecting a simple type of social network: Instant Messaging services. Today, users are members of various IM communities such as AOL, Yahoo, and ...
In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium, but also as an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These...
ABSTRACT. Grids have become very complex. It makes the deployment and maintenance of systems a difficult task requiring lots of efforts from administrators. We believe that peer-t...