Over the last few years, application-layer multicast (ALM) has emerged as a plausible solution for supporting group-oriented applications. However, ALM suffers from inefficiency ...
Many Web services operate their own Web crawlers to discover data of interest, despite the fact that largescale, timely crawling is complex, operationally intensive, and expensive...
Jonathan M. Hsieh, Steven D. Gribble, Henry M. Lev...
This paper presents an approach for the integration of reconfigurable hardware and computer applications based on the concept of ubiquitous computing. The goal is to allow a netwo...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms allowing applications to be aware of their environment and enabling them to ad...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Fano Ramparany,...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) data networks dominate Internet traffic. In this work, we study the problems that arise when mobile hosts participate in P2P networks. We primarily focus on th...