Abstract. Database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular introducing a new paradigm, called database-as-a-service, where a client’s database is stored at an external servi...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
Task scheduling is an integrated component of computing. With the emergence of grid and ubiquitous computing, newer challenges have arisen in task scheduling. Unlike traditional p...
In a multi-hop mobile ad hoc network (MANET) mobile nodes communicate with each other forming a cooperative radio network. Security remains a major challenge for these networks du...
The Drive-thru Internet architecture allows exploiting intermittent connectivity by temporarily connecting to IEEE 802.11 WLAN access points at the roadside from moving vehicles. T...
In distributed database systems, tables are frequently fragmented and replicated over a number of sites in order to reduce network communication costs. How to fragment, when to rep...
Jon Olav Hauglid, Norvald H. Ryeng, Kjetil N&oslas...