Abstract—In the past few years, P2P file distribution applications (e.g., BitTorrent) are becoming so popular that they are the dominating source of Internet traffic. This crea...
For many application-level distributed protocols and parallel algorithms, the set of participants, the number of messages or the interaction structure are only known at run-time. T...
This paper proposes a new method for programming and controlling distributed tasks. Applications declare behavior patterns that are used to automatically predict and reserve resou...
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An IX (Internet eXchange) is a mechanism to interconnect many networks to each other. Currently, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) establishes numerous interconnections to other ...