This paper presents an ant-inspired algorithm for building a self-organizing information system of a Grid. Ant-inspired mobile agents travel the Grid through P2P (peer-to-peer) int...
Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomeni...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
A new generation of distributed systems and applications rely on the cooperation of diverse user populations motivated by self-interest. While they can utilize “reputation syste...
Gayatri Swamynathan, Ben Y. Zhao, Kevin C. Almerot...
— To share and exchange the files among Internet users, Peerto-Peer (P2P) applications build another layer of overlay networks on top of the Internet Infrastructure. In P2P fil...
Zhiyong Xu, D. Stefanescu, Honggang Zhang, Laxmi N...
The popularity of distributed file systems continues to grow. Reasons they are preferred over traditional centralized file systems include fault tolerance, availability, scalabili...
Ragib Hasan, Zahid Anwar, William Yurcik, Larry Br...