Video-on-demand over IP (VOD) is one of the best-known examples of “next-generation” Internet applications cited as a goal by networking and multimedia researchers. Without em...
Hongliang Yu, Dongdong Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Weimin ...
: e-business organizations are heavily dependent on distributed 24X7 robust information computing systems, for their daily operations. To secure distributed online transactions, th...
Motivated by applications to sensor, peer-to-peer, and adhoc networks, we study the problem of computing functions of values at the nodes in a network in a totally distributed man...
Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...
Abstract—The dynamics of the survival of recruiting fish are analyzed as evolving random processes of aggregation and mortality. The analyses draw on recent advances in the phys...