A peer-to-peer complementary currency can be a powerful tool for promoting exchanges that make use of underutilized computing resources in a trusted way. i-WAT[11] is a proposed s...
The use of server virtualization has been growing steadily, but many enterprises still are reluctant to migrate critical workloads to such infrastructures. One key inhibitor is the...
Motivated by recent surfacing viruses that can spread over the air interfaces, in this paper, we investigate the potential disastrous threat of node compromise spreading in wirele...
Designing applications with timeliness requirements in environments of uncertain synchrony is known to be a difficult problem. In this paper, we follow the perspective of timing ...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...