We present a system in which a cell phone decides whether to ring by accepting votes from the others in a conversation with the called party. When a call comes in, the phone first...
Structured peer-to-peer overlay networks provide a substrate for the construction of large-scale, decentralized applications, including distributed storage, group communication, a...
Miguel Castro, Peter Druschel, Ayalvadi J. Ganesh,...
This paper addresses the efficient processing of similarity queries in metric spaces, where data is horizontally distributed across a P2P network. The proposed approach does not r...
Pervasive devices interacting in open and dynamic spaces with each others require a mechanism that allows them acting autonomously in a secure way and protecting their resources. ...
Smart Dust sensor networks ? consisting of cubic millimeter scale sensor nodes capable of limited computation, sensing, and passive optical communication with a base station ? are...