Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...
We present a soft real-time CPU server for Continuous Media processing in the UNIX environment. The server is a daemon process from which applications can request and acquire soft...
In wireless sensor networks each sensor node has very limited resources, and it is very difficult to find and collect them. For this reason, updating or adding programs in sensor n...
: This work investigates the integration of heterogeneous resources, such as data and programs, in a fully distributed peer-to-peer mediation architecture. The challenge in making ...
Emerging approaches to enforce some form of protection in (pseudo)anonymous peer to peer systems propose the use of reputations as a means to establish the reliability of servents...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...