The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
—The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of data-driven overlay network (DON) based streaming applications during recent years. In these applications, each nodes ...
Abstract--The open wireless medium in a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) enables malicious traffic analysis to dynamically infer the network traffic pattern in hostile environments. T...
Abstract— Many emerging applications for peer to peer overlays may require nodes to satisfy strict timing deadlines to access a replica of a given object. This includes multimedi...
Aggregation refers to a set of functions that provide global information about a distributed system. These functions operate on numeric values distributed over the system and can ...