SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Unattended Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) are composed of many small resource-constrained devices and operate autonomously, gathering data which is periodically collected by a v...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. As the quality of protection provided by a firewall dire...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Replicated file-systems can experience degraded performance that might not be adequately handled by the underlying fault-tolerant protocols. We describe the design and implementa...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
We identify here various kinds of failure conditions and robustness issues that arise in context-aware pervasive computing applications. Such conditions are related to failures in...
SRDS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Existing clock synchronization algorithms assume a bounded clock reading error. This, in turn, results in an inflexible design that typically requires node crashes whenever the g...
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
The scalability properties of DHT based overlay networks is considered satisfactory. However, in large scale systems this might still cause a problem since they have a logarithmic...
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
System-level virtualization has been a research topic since the 70’s but regained popularity during the past few years because of the availability of efficient solution such as...
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...