Causal request traces are valuable to developers of large concurrent and distributed applications, yet difficult to obtain. Traces show how a request is processed, and can be anal...
Abstract—In distributed environments, access control decisions depend on statements of multiple agents rather than only one central trusted party. However, existing policy langua...
Abstract. Renewed interest in ALOHA-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols stems from their proposed applications to wireless ad hoc and sensor networks that require distribut...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
Abstract. Grid computing is becoming a mainstream technology for multiinstitutional distributed resources sharing and system integration. Normally, the programmer's productivi...