Abstract—An approach is presented for flexible support of devices in smart homes, meeting the needs of both home automation and telecare. Device services are introduced as a gen...
Abstract—We review the issues with the conception of realtime event based applications and propose an event manager component design. We start from the design proposed by the Rea...
Abstract—Managing group membership in an ad hoc mcommerce trading forum is a challenging task as peers may only have partial knowledge of the current membership due to frequent n...
Recent Internet applications, such as online social networks and user-generated content sharing, produce an unprecedented amount of social information, which is further augmented b...
Nicolas Kourtellis, Joshua Finnis, Paul Anderson, ...
This paper presents LiFTinG, the first protocol to detect freeriders, including colluding ones, in gossip-based content dissemination systems with asymmetric data exchanges. LiFT...
While social networks provide news from old buddies, you can learn a lot more from people you do not know, but with whom you share many interests. We show in this paper how to bui...
Abstract. Data aggregation is a key aspect of many distributed applications, such as distributed sensing, performance monitoring, and distributed diagnostics. In such settings, use...
Krishna P. N. Puttaswamy, Ranjita Bhagwan, Venkata...
Abstract. To disseminate messages from a single source to a large number of targeted receivers, a natural approach is the tree-based application layer multicast (ALM). However, in ...
Kyungbaek Kim, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubr...
Enterprise distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems manage resources and data that are vital to users. Cloud computing—where computing resourc...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) have been adopted as a building block for large-scale distributed systems. The upshot of this success is that their robust operation is even more imp...