On May 4, 1988 a fire occurred after hours on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Bank building, a 62 story steelframe office tower in Los Angeles California. The sprinkler sys...
The goal of this paper is to identify and discuss scalability issues for the measurement-based analysis of the availability in large-scale networks using IP multicast technology. ...
This article proposes a flexible and distributed stochastic automaton-based network partitioning algorithm that is capable of finding the optimal k-way partition with respect to a...
Yan Wan, Sandip Roy, Ali Saberi, Bernard C. Lesieu...
We introduce some modifications to the widely deployed Kerberos authentication protocol. The principle’s secretkey will be independent of the user password to overcome the weak...
Eman El-Emam, Magdy Koutb, Hamdy Kelash, Osama S. ...
As grid computing becomes more commonplace, so does the importance of coscheduling these geographically distributed resourcest. Negotiating resource management and scheduling deci...
Kenneth Yoshimoto, Patricia A. Kovatch, Phil Andre...