— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
Group communications (multicast) are foreseen to be one of the most critical yet challenging technologies to meet the exponentially growing demands for data distribution in a large...
Antiquity is a wide-area distributed storage system designed to provide a simple storage service for applications like file systems and back-up. The design assumes that all serve...
Hakim Weatherspoon, Patrick R. Eaton, Byung-Gon Ch...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
It is envisaged that services and applications will migrate to a cloud-computing paradigm where thin-clients on userdevices access, over the network, applications hosted in data c...
Fang Hao, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, Haoyu S...