Multicast services are demanded by a variety of applications. Many applications require anonymity during their communication. However, there has been very little work on anonymous...
Li Xiao, Xiaomei Liu, Wenjun Gu, Dong Xuan, Yunhao...
We construct, analyze and solve models of systems where a number of servers offer services to an incoming stream of demands. Each server goes through alternating periods of being ...
—Providing independent uniform samples from a system population poses considerable problems in highly dynamic settings, like P2P systems, where the number of participants and the...
Roberto Baldoni, Marco Platania, Leonardo Querzoni...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing networks attract much attention from legal and research communities. The success and popularity of P2P networks provides a new paradigm for sharing...
Hao Shi, Yanchun Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Elizabeth ...
The increasing availability of information about people's context makes it possible to deploy context-sensitive services, where access to resources provided or managed by a s...