Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) have become the de facto standard for designing distributed and loosely coupled applications. Many servicebased applications de...
Harald Psaier, Florian Skopik, Daniel Schall, Scha...
In this paper, we propose virtual data center (VDC) as the unit of resource allocation for multiple tenants in the cloud. VDCs are more desirable than physical data centers becaus...
Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Helen J. Wang, Shuang Y...
Cache-based, general purpose CPUs perform at a small fraction of their maximum floating point performance when executing memory-intensive simulations, such as those required for sp...
Abstract--Time synchronization is a critical service for distributed network systems. In this work, we investigate this problem in the context of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs)...
Jun Liu, Robert Zhong Zhou, James Peng Zheng, Jun-...
This paper considers a large-scale wireless sensor network where sensor readings are occasionally collected by a mobile sink, and sensor nodes are responsible for temporarily stori...