This paper addresses the problem of selection and discovery of a consistent availability monitoring overlay for computer hosts in a large-scale distributed application, where host...
The first decades of the new millennium will witness an explosive growth in the number and diversity of networked devices and portals. We foresee high degrees of mobility, hetero...
Fabio Kon, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickunas, Kl...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Storage systems are increasingly subject to attacks. Cryptographic file systems mitigate the danger of exposing data by using encryption and integrity protection methods and guar...