Networked multimedia applications, such as videoconferencing, offer great communicative opportunities. Since the financial cost of using such a service increases in line with the q...
This paper introduces a mechanism for establishing policies for electronic commerce in a uni ed and secure manner. A commercial policy can be viewed as the embodiment of a contrac...
Abstract. In a distributed system, dynamically dividing execution between nodes is essential for service robustness. However, when all of the nodes cannot be equally trusted, and w...
We study the performance of TCP in an internetwork consisting of both rate-controlled and non-rate-controlled segments. A commonexample of such an environment occurs when the end ...
Lampros Kalampoukas, Anujan Varma, K. K. Ramakrish...
Software architectural design is essential for complex distributed applications. Architectural specifications need to define the key aspects of the application, including its inte...
M. Cecilia Bastarrica, Steven A. Demurjian, Alexan...