Large scale systems such as the Grid need scalable and efficient resource allocation mechanisms to fulfil the requirements of its participants and applications while the whole s...
Industrial Information Grid (IIG) is a special kind of Grid system, the users of which exclusively own geographically distributed resources for Web service applications and try to...
Jianfeng Zhan, Gengpu Liu, Lei Wang, Bibo Tu, Yi J...
This paper explores the problems associated with the multicasting of continuous media to support multimedia group applications. The interaction between multicasting and the deliver...
Joseph Pasquale, George C. Polyzos, George Xylomen...
There have been many debates about the feasibility of providing guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) when network traffic travels beyond the enterprise domain and into the vast unk...
Ad-hoc networks of mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs represent a new and exciting distributed system architecture. Building distributed applications on such an architec...
Yang Ni, Ulrich Kremer, Adrian Stere, Liviu Iftode