— BitTorrent (BT) in the last years has been one of the most effective mechanisms for P2P content distribution. Although BT was created for distribution of time insensitive conte...
Envisioning a new generation of sensor network applications in healthcare and workplace safety, we seek mechanisms that provide timely and reliable transmissions of mission-critic...
Protecting users’ privacy is essential for turning networks and services into trustworthy friends. Many privacy enhancing techniques, such as anonymous e-cash and mix-nets, have...
Condor provides high throughput computing by leveraging idlecycles on off-the-shelf desktop machines. It also supports flocking, a mechanism for sharing resources among Condor po...
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...