This paper presents the ADHOCFS file system for mobile users, which realizes transparent, adaptive file access according to the users’ specific situations (e.g., device in us...
—The paper first discusses motivations why taking into account location information in authentication and access control is important. The paper then surveys current approaches t...
Abstract--In the network-centric computing era, applications often involve sets of autonomous, unpredictable, and possibly mobile entities interacting within open, dynamic, and pos...
As parallel jobs get bigger in size and finer in granularity, “system noise” is increasingly becoming a problem. In fact, fine-grained jobs on clusters with thousands of SMP...
Dan Tsafrir, Yoav Etsion, Dror G. Feitelson, Scott...
With the wide spread growth of mobile computing devices and local area wireless networks, wireless network providers have started to target the users with value-added services bas...