The strong dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, coupled with the diversity of peer vocabularies, makes query processing in peer database systems a very challenging task. In this pape...
We study a new approach to provide an efficient VoD service to a large client population in P2P networks. Previous work has suggested to construct a multicast tree to distribute t...
Anwar Al Hamra, Ernst W. Biersack, Guillaume Urvoy...
Abstract—Many distributed applications require a group of destinations to be coordinated with a single source. Multicasting is a communication paradigm to implement these distrib...
—Positioning is a crucial task in pervasive computing, aimed at estimating the user’s positions to provide location-based services. In this paper, we study an interesting probl...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Junhui Zhao, Yongcai Wang, ...
A network of cooperating agents must be able to reach rough consensus on a set of topics for cooperation. With highly heterogeneous agents, however, incommensurable measures and i...