In most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, it is necessary to collect vital statistics data — sometimes referred to as logs — from up to millions of peers. Tradition...
Abstract— Scientific computing is being increasingly deployed over volunteer-based distributed computing environments consisting of idle resources on donated user machines. A fu...
—Sensor networks involving human participants will require privacy protection before wide deployment is feasible. This paper proposes and evaluates a set of protocols that enable...
James Horey, Michael M. Groat, Stephanie Forrest, ...
We consider a shared store based on distributed shared memory (DSM), supporting persistence by reachability (PBR), a very simple data sharing model for a distributed system. This ...
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...