Network-centricity is a concept under consideration as a useful paradigm for complex organizational operations, combining the strengths of bureaucracy with the innovative possibil...
Nowadays, grid and peer-to-peer (p2p) technologies have become popular solutions for large-scale resource sharing and system integration. For e-science workflow systems, grid is a...
Yun Yang, Ke Liu, Jinjun Chen, Joel Lignier, Hai J...
GLS is a new distributed location service which tracks mobile node locations. GLS combined with geographic forwarding allows the construction of ad hoc mobile networks that scale ...
Jinyang Li, John Jannotti, Douglas S. J. De Couto,...
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...