Collective operations are an important aspect of the currently most important message-passing programming model MPI (Message Passing Interface). Many MPI applications make heavy u...
Computer worms -- malicious, self-propagating programs -- represent a significant threat to large networks. One possible defense, containment, seeks to limit a worm's spread ...
Abstract--Pervasive computing applications involve both software concerns, like any software system, and integration concerns, for the constituent networked devices of the pervasiv...
Fair bandwidth allocation is an important issue in the multicast network to serve each multicast traffic at a fair rate commensurate with the receiver's capabilities and the ...
Device firmware is a piece of concurrent software that achieves high performance at the cost of software complexity. They contain subtle race conditions that make them difficult t...