Accurate and synchronized time is crucial in many sensor network applications due to the need for consistent distributed sensing and coordination. In hostile environments where an...
Application execution time prediction is of key importance in making decisions about efficient usage of Grid resources. Grid services lack support of a generic application executi...
Farrukh Nadeem, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Radu Prod...
We explore the extent to which newly available CPU-based security technology can reduce the Trusted Computing Base (TCB) for security-sensitive applications. We find that although...
Jonathan M. McCune, Bryan Parno, Adrian Perrig, Mi...
Virtual machines are widely accepted as a promising basis for building secure systems. However, while virtual machines offer effective mechanisms to create isolated environments, ...
This paper describes an experiment performed on Wide Area Network to assess and fairly compare the Quality of Service provided by a large family of failure detectors. Failure dete...