Camera phones have been viewed simplistically as digital cameras with poor picture quality while neglecting the utility of the two key functionalities of mobile phones: network co...
It has recently been shown that fair exchange, a security problem in distributed systems, can be reduced to a fault tolerance problem, namely a special form of distributed consensu...
Carole Delporte-Gallet, Hugues Fauconnier, Felix C...
Abstract We present a monitoring system which detects repeated packets in network traffic, and has applications including detecting computer worms. It uses Bloom filters with count...
Paul C. van Oorschot, Jean-Marc Robert, Miguel Var...
When rational but myopic agents negotiate over the exchange of indivisible resources, any restriction to the negotiation protocol may prevent the system from converging to a socia...
Distributed database applications are a wide use of distributed systems. One of the major advantages of distributed database systems is the potential for achieving high availabili...