Power consumption of the Information and Communication Technology sector (ICT) has recently become a key challenge. In particular, actions to improve energy-efficiency of Internet...
Carla Panarello, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra...
Client-server networks are pervasive, fundamental, and include such key networks as the Internet, power grids, and road networks. In a client-server network, clients obtain a serv...
George Dean Bissias, Brian Neil Levine, Ramesh K. ...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...
The design of the access networks of next generation broadband wireless systems requires special attention in the light of changing network characteristics. In this paper, we pres...
Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. While there are several authentication mechanisms which support single sign-on (e.g. Kerberos and X.509), it m...