Metacomputing frameworks have received renewed attention of late, fueled both by advances in hardware and networking, and by novel concepts such as computational grids. However the...
Mauro Migliardi, Jack Dongarra, Al Geist, Vaidy S....
One of the typical features of distributed systems is the heterogeneity of its components (e.g. geographical spreading and different platform architectures), leading to interopera...
Tom Verdickt, Bart Dhoedt, Frank Gielen, Piet Deme...
— Due to the increased usage of NAT boxes and firewalls, it has become harder for applications to establish direct connections seamlessly among two end-hosts. A recently adopted...
Hung Xuan Nguyen, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Matthias G...
Recently proposed usage control concept and models extend traditional access control models with features for contemporary distributed computing systems, including continuous acce...
— In DHT based P2P systems, various issues such as peer heterogeneity, network topology, and diverse file popularity, may affect the DHT system efficiency. In this paper, we pr...