The Gnutella protocol requires peers to broadcast messages to their neighbours when they search files. The message passing generates a lot of traffic in the network, which degrade...
Yamini Upadrashta, Julita Vassileva, Winfried K. G...
—We discuss a general architectural approach to knowledge and information management and delivery in distributed systems. Our approach is based on the recognition that time-stamp...
Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet S. Aktas, Galip Aydin, Andrea...
Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...
Web-service-related techniques have become popular to improve system integration and interaction. In distributed and dynamic environment, web services’ availability has been reg...
Lingshuang Shao, Junfeng Zhao, Tao Xie, Lu Zhang, ...
Making backup is so cumbersome and expensive that individuals hardly ever backup their data and companies usually duplicate their data into a secondary server. This paper proposes...