Process technology has reduced in size such that it is possible to implement complete applicationspecific architectures as Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) using both Application-Specific I...
We propose a peer-to-peer system that supports distributed virtual world applications. For these applications, the connections between directly neighboring peers are of the utmost ...
The amount of data collected and stored in databases is growing considerably for almost all areas of human activity. Processing this amount of data is very expensive, both humanly...
Availability is a critical issue in modern distributed systems. While many techniques and protocols for preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks have been proposed and deployed ...
The capacity of today's network links, along with the heterogeneity of their traffic, is rapidly growing, more than the workstation’s processing power. This makes the task ...