Developing middleware services for dynamic distributed systems, e.g., ad-hoc networks, is a challenging task given that such services deal with dynamically changing membership and...
Kishori M. Konwar, Peter M. Musial, Nicolas C. Nic...
Open distributed systems are typically composed by an unknown number of processes running in heterogeneous hosts. Their communication often requires tolerance to temporary disconn...
Alysson Neves Bessani, Miguel Correia, Joni da Sil...
The Internet is an extremely complex system, and it is essential that we be able to make accurate measurements in order to understand its underlying behavior or to detect improper...
Alden W. Jackson, Walter C. Milliken, Cesar A. San...
In this paper we present FailRank, a novel framework for integrating and ranking information sources that characterize failures in a grid system. After the failing sites have been...
The advancement of optical networking technologies has enabled e-science applications that often require transport of large volumes of scientific data. In support of such data-in...