The heterogeneity of the Internet’s transmission resources and end system capability makes it difficult to agree on acceptable traffic characteristics among the multiple receive...
An opportunistic network is a network where each node only has connectiviy with other nodes opportunistically. To disseminate data in this kind of network is a challenging task an...
Executing parallel applications across distributed networks introduces the problem of fault tolerance. A viable solution for fault tolerance must keep overhead manageable and not c...
Abstract—Federated systems have recently attracted much attention because they allow loosely coupled organizations to share resources for common benefits. However, discovering r...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...