In this paper the authors describe the implementation and validation of a prototype of an environmental and health monitoring system based on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The ...
Marco Messina, Yen Yang Lim, Elaine Lawrence, Don ...
We consider the problem of Object Safety: how objects endowed with processing, communication, and sensing capabilities can determine their safety. We assign an agent to each objec...
1 Challenges of scale have limited the development of event notification systems with strong properties, despite the urgent demand for consistency, reliability, security, and other...
Ken Birman, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Krzysztof Ostrow...
Structured peer-to-peer systems rely on replication as a basic means to provide fault-tolerance in presence of high churn. Most select replicas using either multiple hash functions...
In most P2P business models, in which users purchase the media, it is necessary to securely identify the user in order to facilitate payment. In this paper, we present a technique ...