We are developing a distributed query processor called PIER, which is designed to run on the scale of the entire Internet. PIER utilizes a Distributed Hash Table (DHT) as its comm...
Brent N. Chun, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
This paper deals with hierarchical model predictive control (MPC) of distributed systems. A threelevel hierarchical approach is proposed, consisting of a high level MPC controller,...
Jan Dimon Bendtsen, Klaus Trangbaek, Jakob Stoustr...
Distributed Role-Based Access Control (dRBAC) is a scalable, decentralized trust-management and accesscontrol mechanism for systems that span multiple administrative domains. dRBA...
Eric Freudenthal, Tracy Pesin, Lawrence Port, Edwa...
The increasing complexity and dynamics of grid environments have posed great challenges for secure and privacy-preserving collaboration in a virtual organization. In this paper, w...
This paper describes BiSNET (Biologically-inspired architecture for Sensor NETworks), a middleware architecture that addresses several key issues in multi-modal wireless sensor ne...