Many information services in pervasive computing offer rich information, which is information that includes other types of information. For example, the information listed in a pe...
By providing direct data transfer between storage and client, network-attached storage devices have the potential to improve scalability for existing distributed file systems (by...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W....
Today, the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer file-sharing network is one of the largest Internet applications--it generates massive traffic volumes, it is deployed in thousands of independe...
An IX (Internet eXchange) is a mechanism to interconnect many networks to each other. Currently, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) establishes numerous interconnections to other ...
This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...