Both peer-to-peer and sensor networks have the fundamental characteristics of node churn and failures. Peers in P2P networks are highly dynamic, whereas sensors are not dependable...
—A commodity personal computer (PC) can be seen as a hybrid computing system equipped with two different kinds of processors, i.e. CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU). Since...
—Fast proliferation of IEEE 802.11 wireless devices has led to the emergence of High-Density (HD) Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), where it is challenging to improve the thr...
Yanfeng Zhu, Zhisheng Niu, Qian Zhang, Bo Tan, Zhi...
A software framework for the parallel execution of sequential programs using C++ classes is presented. The functional language Concurrent ML is used to implement the underlying ha...
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...