—Modern large-scale grid computing for processing advanced science and engineering applications relies on geographically distributed clusters. In such highly distributed environm...
Daniel M. Batista, Luciano Chaves, Nelson L. S. da...
Large client-server data intensive applications can place high demands on system and network resources. This is especially true when the connection between the client and server s...
Several recent papers have proposed or analyzed optimal algorithms to route all-to-all personalizedcommunication (AAPC) over communication networks such as meshes, hypercubes and ...
The IEEE 802.11x MAC protocol, the de facto standard for wireless LANs, includes a distributed coordination function (DCF) mode usable for ad hoc network architectures. The Transm...
A link is an unreliable FIFO channel. As we mentioned earlier, it is an abstraction of a point-topoint wire or of a simple broadcast LAN. It is unreliable because noise or other ph...