Ivy is a multi-user read/write peer-to-peer file system. Ivy has no centralized or dedicated components, and it provides useful integrity properties without requiring users to ful...
Athicha Muthitacharoen, Robert Morris, Thomer M. G...
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
The field of pervasive computing has seen a lot of exciting innovations in the past few years. However, there are currently no mechanisms for describing the properties and capabil...
Energy consumption of mobile readers is becoming an important issue as applications of RFID systems pervade different aspects of our lives. Surprisingly, however, these systems ar...