Over the past several years, with the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) [10] and the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) [14], Service-Oriented Architectures...
Both Java RMI and Jini use a proxy-based architecture. In this architecture, a client interacts with a service through a proxy, which is code downloaded from a directory and insta...
Cluster computing is excellent for parallel computation. It has become increasingly popular. In cluster computing, a service level agreement (SLA) is a set of quality of services (...
Using service-based system descriptions simplifies the specification of complex reactive systems as found in the domain of web-services as well as embedded systems. To support a se...
Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of peer-to-peer (P2P) communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service. To date,...