In this paper, we define and study a new class of capacity planning models called MAP queueing networks. MAP queueing networks provide the first analytical methodology to describe ...
Abstract. Distributed transactional systems require an atomic commitment protocol to preserve atomicity of the ACID properties. However, the industry leading standard, 2PC, is slow...
For an effective Internet-based distributed parallel computing platform, Java-Internet Computing Environment (JICE) is designed and implemented with multithreading and remote meth...
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensors, however, have significant power constraint (battery life), makin...