This paper studies the use of pricing as an incentive mechanism to encourage private, self-interested nodes to participate in a public wireless mesh network and cooperate in the p...
With the rapid emergence of peer-to-peer applications, more and more applications will generate many-to-one rather than one-to-one traffic flows. While a number of previous works ...
Abstract— Data mining constitutes an important class of scientific and commercial applications. Recent advances in data extraction techniques have created vast data sets, which ...
Execution of MPI applications on Clusters and Grid deployments suffers from node and network failure that motivates the use of fault tolerant MPI implementations. Two category tec...
Suppose two entities that do not trust each other want to exchange some arbitrary data over a public channel. A fair exchange protocol ensures that both parties get what they want ...