A protocol for a distributed hash table (DHT) incurs communication costs to keep up with churn—changes in membership—in order to maintain its ability to route lookups efficie...
Jinyang Li, Jeremy Stribling, Thomer M. Gil, Rober...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs) connected with low-latency networks provide attractive building blocks for software distributed shared memory systems. Two distinct approaches hav...
Network and service providers are rapidly deploying IPTV networks to deliver a wide variety of video content to subscribers. Some video content may be protected by copyright and/or...
Yali Liu, Canhui Ou, Zhi Li, Cherita L. Corbett, C...
This paper surveys the theoretical developments in the field of stochastic process algebras, process algebras where action occurrences may be subject to a delay that is determined...