Abstract: For evaluating dynamics of mobile ad-hoc networks at least three different layers have to be distinguished: the application layer, the protocol layer, and the network lay...
The complexity of large computer systems has raised unprecedented challenges for system management. In practice, operators often collect large volume of monitoring data from system...
This work is in the domain of Electronic Document Management (EDM) [1]. The documents can be an electronic writing, an image, a sound file, a network protocol message, a set of da...
Many large scale systems, like grids and structured peer to peer systems, operate on a constrained topology. Since underlying networks do not expose the real topology to the appli...
Although Instant Messaging (IM) services are now relatively long-standing and very popular as an instant way of communication over the Internet, they have received little attention...