— One of the most notable challenges threatening the successful deployment of sensor systems is privacy. Although many privacy-related issues can be addressed by security mechani...
A pass-through server such as an NFS server backed by an iSCSI[1] storage server only passes data between the storage server and NFS clients. Ideally it should require at most one...
Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
Large-scale systems like BlueGene/L are susceptible to a number of software and hardware failures that can affect system performance. Periodic application checkpointing is a commo...
Mobile Peer-to-Peer (MP2P) systems consist of mobile peers that collaborate with each other to complete application problems. Information sharing in such environments is a challen...
Huaping Shen, Mary Suchitha Joseph, Mohan Kumar, S...