The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely used to synchronize computer clocks throughout the Internet. Existing NTP clients and servers form a very large distributed system, and y...
Abstract-The analysis of data usage in a large set of real traces from a high-energy physics collaboration revealed the existence of an emergent grouping of files that we coined &q...
A myriad of recent activities can be seen towards dynamic workflow composition for processing complex and data intensive problems. Meanwhile, the simultaneous emergence of the gri...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Abstract-- The capabilities of embedded devices such as smartphones are steadily increasing and provide the great flexibility of data access and collaboration while being mobile. F...
Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...