Advances in computing and networking technology, and an explosion in information sources has resulted in a growing number of distributed systems getting constructed out of resourc...
Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
Peer production has played an important role in the economics of Web 2.0 related services. User participation and contribution become the main driving dynamics of this new economi...
Mobile agent technology has emerged as a promising programming paradigm for developing highly dynamic and large-scale service-oriented computing middlewares due to its desirable fe...
This paper analyzes distributed asynchronous power and rate control for wireless ad hoc networks. Importantly, all network transmitters are considered to be independent of any mana...