Our work presents a mechanism designed for the selection of the optimal information provider in a multi-agent, heterogeneous and unsupervised monitoring system. The selfadaptation...
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
We consider an architecture for a serverless distributed file system that does not assume mutual trust among the client computers. The system provides security, availability, and ...
William J. Bolosky, John R. Douceur, David Ely, Ma...
Many existing peer-to-peer content distribution networks (CDNs) such as Na Kika, CoralCDN, and CoDeeN are deployed on PlanetLab, a relatively trusted environment. But scaling them...
Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...