The bulk of contents out on the Internet continue to grow at an astounding pace. As computing and communications become ubiquitous, we are entering the Mobile Internet Computing e...
— The purpose of this paper is to model the stochastic behavior of nodal prices and use the predicted price differences between zones as the basis for measuring the magnitude and...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Although WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework) and Java-based hosting environment have been successful in dealing with the heterogeneity of resources and the diversity of applica...
— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...