—Pocket Switched Networks take advantage of social contacts to opportunistically create data paths over time. This work employs empirical traces to examine the effect of the huma...
Nishanth Sastry, D. Manjunath, Karen R. Sollins, J...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
The unprecedented growth of data at geographically distributed locations coupled with tremendous improvement in networking capabilities over the last decade strongly motivate the ...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies promise to provide efficient distribution, sharing and management of resources, such as storage, processing, routing and other sundry service capabi...
Network programming is notoriously hard to understand: one has to deal with a variety of protocols (IP, ICMP, UDP, TCP etc), concurrency, packet loss, host failure, timeouts, the c...