Abstract Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for
the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional …

In the current hyperconnected era, modern Information and Communication Technology
(ICT) systems form sophisticated networks where not only do people interact with other …

Distributed Systems Page 1 DS 2006; Ch1 16-Jan-06 Timo Alanko, 2006 1 Distributed
Systems Spring 2006 Timo Alanko 16-Jan-06 2 Sources of material • Tanenbaum, van …

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for
Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know what algorithms are used
to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? The authors answer these and …

Cyclic redundancy codes (CRCs) provide a first line of defense against data corruption in
many networks. Unfortunately, many commonly used CRC polynomials provide significantly …

Data center power is a scarce resource that often goes underutilized due to conservative
planning. This is because the penalty for overloading the data center power delivery …

The success and popularity of social network systems, such as del. icio. us, Facebook,
MySpace, and YouTube, have generated many interesting and challenging problems to the …

Service and resource discovery has become an integral part of modern networked systems.
In this survey we give an overview of the existing solutions for service and resource …