Chord is a protocol to distribute and retrieve information at large scale. It builds a large but rigid overlay network without taking into account the social nature and the underl...
— Security breaches and attacks are critical problems in today’s networking. A key-point is that the security of each host depends not only on the protection strategies it choo...
In this paper we define the Weak Mutual Exclusion (WME) problem. Analogously to classical Distributed Mutual Exclusion (DME), WME serializes the accesses to a shared resource. Di...
Service-Oriented Architectures provide integration of interoperability for independent and loosely coupled services. Web services and the associated new standards such as WSRF are...
Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Matthias Banhol...
—The observed performance by individual peers in BitTorrent can be simply measured by their average download rate. While it is often stated that the observed peer-level performan...