NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, whi...
Ioannis Konstantinou, Evangelos Angelou, Christina...
The impossibility of statically determining the behavior of complex systems that interact at runtime with heterogeneous devices and remote entities, may lead to unexpected system ...
The performance of a sensor network may be best judged by the quality of application specific information return. The actual sensing performance of a deployed sensor network depe...
Aman Kansal, Eric Yuen, William J. Kaiser, Gregory...
—The distributed nature of the CSMA/CA based wireless protocols, e.g., the IEEE 802.11 distributed coordinated function (DCF), allows malicious nodes to deliberately manipulate t...
Reliable multicast protocols can strongly simplify the design of distributed applications. However, it is hard to sustain a high multicast throughput when groups are large and het...