—When the Internet was conceived, its fundamental operation was envisioned to be point-to-point communication allowing anybody to talk directly to anybody. With its increasing su...
Fault-tolerant architectures based on physical replication of components are vulnerable to faults that cause the same effect in all replica. Short outages in a power supply shared...
Gossip-based information dissemination protocols are considered easy to deploy, scalable and resilient to network dynamics. They are also considered highly flexible, namely tunab...
Abstract—Systems designed for the automatic summarization of meetings have considered the propositional content of contributions by each speaker, but not the explicit techniques ...
Broadcast of information in wireless sensor networks is an important operation, e.g., for code updates, queries, membership information, etc. In this paper, we analyze and experim...