— Numerous proposals exist for load balancing in peer-to-peer (p2p) networks. Some focus on namespace balancing, making the distance between nodes as uniform as possible. This te...
Peer-to-peer networks have been commonly used for tasks such as file sharing or file distribution. We study a class of cooperative file distribution systems where a file is br...
Ernst W. Biersack, Damiano Carra, Renato Lo Cigno,...
We envisage pervasive computing applications to be predominantly engaged in knowledge-based interactions, where services and information will be found and exchanged based on some ...
This paper aims to simplify recent efforts proposed by the Berkeley school in giving a formal semantics to the Ptolemy toolbox. We achieve this by developing a simple and elegant ...
Paul Caspi, Albert Benveniste, Roberto Lublinerman...
We present a decentralized market-based approach to resource allocation in a heterogeneous overlay network. The presented resource allocation strategy assigns overlay network reso...
Jay Smith, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Maciejews...