Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...
Reliability of weather data processing systems is of prime importance to ensure the efficient operation of space-based weather monitoring systems. This work defines a heterogeneou...
Mohana Oltikar, Jeff Brateman, Joe White, Jon Mart...
The paper describes a metaobject architecture for distributed fault tolerant systems. Basically metaobject protocols enables functional objects to be independent from meta-function...
The growing importance of operations such as identification, location sensing and object tracking has led to increasing interests in contactless Radio Frequency Identification (RFI...