—A fundamental challenge of managing mutable data replication in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system is how to efficiently maintain consistency under various sharing patterns with heter...
— Efficient support of multicast traffic in Storage Area Networks (SANs) enables applications such as remote data replication and distributed multimedia systems, in which a ser...
Andrea Bianco, Paolo Giaccone, Enrico Maria Giraud...
The crew planning problem has been successfully solved on a loosely connected network of workstations (NOW) using advanced computational techniques and efficient communication pat...
— With the widespread availability of inexpensive broadband Internet connections for home-users, a large number of bandwidth-intensive applications previously not feasible have n...
A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the com...