Abstract— Motivated by applications in cryptography, we consider a generalization of randomness extraction and the related notion of privacy amplification to the case of two cor...
—In recent years, there has been significant interest in adopting the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology for Internet live video streaming. There are primarily two reasons behind thi...
Bo Li, Susu Xie, Gabriel Yik Keung, Jiangchuan Liu...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies promise to provide efficient distribution, sharing and management of resources, such as storage, processing, routing and other sundry service capabi...
Situation awareness is an important application category in cyber-physical systems, and distributed video-based surveillance is a good canonical example of this application class. ...