Although many multicast communication protocols have been recommended at IETF, reliable multicast communications currently rely on programs built at the application layer, e.g., m...
The widening spectrum of applications and services provided by portable and embedded devices bring a new dimension of concerns in security. Most of those embedded systems (pay-TV,...
As Grids try to achieve optimal and balanced utilization of unused resources in a distributed system, fast and efficient discovery of resource states is a key requirement. For sm...
In recent years, peer-to-peer systems have become more and more popular, especially with some successful applications like Napter, Kazaa and edoney. However, how to motivate user ...
While several research projects have been proposed to use software agents to deal with information overload, their results are not applicable in the existing Web infrastructure ma...