Most existing distribution protocols for video-on-demand are tailored for a specific range of request arrival rates and do not perform well beyond that range. We present a univers...
The coordination paradigm has been used extensively as a mechanism for software composition and integration. However, little work has been done for the cases where the software com...
: As Century 21 just opened up, it is a fitting time to reflect on the evolution of the fault-tolerant distributed computing technology that occurred in the last century. The autho...
In this article, we describe a new architecture providing the access control service in both ATM and IPover-ATM networks. This architecture is based on agents distributed in netwo...
The increasing complexity and geographical separation of design data, tools and teams has created a need for a collaborative and distributed design environment. In this paper we p...