Computation off-loading, i.e., remote execution, has been shown to be effective for extending the computational power and battery life of resource-restricted devices, e.g., hand-h...
In Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems, machine owners voluntarily share their unused CPU cycles with guest jobs, as long as the performance degradation is tolerable. For gu...
Tanzima Zerin Islam, Saurabh Bagchi, Rudolf Eigenm...
Virtualization essentially enables multiple operating systems and applications to run on one physical computer by multiplexing hardware resources. A key motivation for applying vi...
In region surveillance applications, sensors oftentimes accumulate an overwhelmingly large amount of data, making it infeasible to process all of the collected data in real-time. ...
Traditional Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks do not provide service differentiation and incentive for users. Consequently, users can easily access information without contributing any ...
Richard T. B. Ma, Sam C. M. Lee, John C. S. Lui, D...