BitTorrent (BT) in practice is a very efficient method to share data over a network of clients. In this paper we extend the recent work of Arthur and Panigrahy [1] on modelling the...
This paper presents a new protocol for ensuring sequential consistency in a distributed objects system. The protocol is efficient and simple. In addition to providing a high-level...
Cristian Tapus, Aleksey Nogin, Jason Hickey, Jerom...
We present Airavat, a MapReduce-based system which provides strong security and privacy guarantees for distributed computations on sensitive data. Airavat is a novel integration o...
Indrajit Roy, Srinath T. V. Setty, Ann Kilzer, Vit...
In a database system, disclosure of confidential private data may occur if users can put together the answers of past queries. Traditional access control mechanisms cannot guard a...
Radio duty cycling has received significant attention in sensor networking literature, particularly in the form of protocols for medium access control and topology management. Whi...