1 Electronic fair-exchange protocols have received significant attention from the research community in the recent past. In loose terms, the fair exchange problem is defined as at...
Abstract. Cloud computing providers have setup several data centers at different geographical locations over the Internet in order to optimally serve needs of their customers aroun...
Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros
Wireless networks’ models differ from wired ones at least in the innovative dynamic effects of host-mobility and open-broadcast nature of the wireless medium. Topology changes d...
Luciano Bononi, Gabriele D'Angelo, Lorenzo Donatie...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...
Modern application infrastructures are based on clustered, multi-tiered architectures, where request distribution occurs in two sequential stages: over a cluster of web servers, a...
Debra E. VanderMeer, Helen M. Thomas, Kaushik Dutt...