The number of networked multimedia platforms that are introduced into the market has increased dramatically in recent years. Current approaches to multimedia distribution do not s...
Stijn Decneut, Filip Hendrickx, Steven Van Assche,...
Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
In traditional overlay multicast network, all peers are treated as equal regardless of their importance and contribution to the network. In this paper, we consider that each user ...
—P2P platforms have been criticized because of the heavy strain that some P2P services can inflict on costly interdomain links of network operators. It is therefore necessary to...
Yi Sun, Yang Richard Yang, Xiaobing Zhang, Yang Gu...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...