In the process of developing P2P systems simulation has proved to be an essential tool for the evaluation of existing and conceived P2P systems. So far, in practice there has been...
Dieter Hildebrandt, Ludger Bischofs, Wilhelm Hasse...
We address the dependence of critical infrastructures— including electric power, telecommunications, finance and transportation—on vulnerable information systems. Our approach...
Kevin J. Sullivan, John C. Knight, Xing Du, Steve ...
— The thermal environment of data centers plays a significant role in affecting the energy efficiency and the reliability of data center operation. A dominant problem associate...
Qinghui Tang, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Georgios Varsam...
Wide-area distributed applications are frequently limited by the performance of Internet data transfer. We argue that the principle cause of this effect is the poor interaction be...
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...