The distributed firewall is an important new line of network defense. It provides fine-grained access control to augment the protections afforded by the traditional perimeter fire...
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
We present the design and implementation of the Janus1 architecture for providing flexible and lightweight access to sensor network resources from Internet-type networks. Janus p...
Deploying and managing wide-area network services is exceptionally challenging. Despite having servers at many locations, a service provider must rely on an underlying besteffort ...