The dependency of our society on networked computers has become frightening: In the
economy, all-digital networks have turned from facilitators to drivers; as cyber-physical …

Distributed data aggregation is an important task, allowing the decentralized determination
of meaningful global properties, which can then be used to direct the execution of other …

Blockchain is a distributed and decentralized ledger for recording transactions. It is
maintained and shared among the participating nodes by utilizing cryptographic primitives …

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

This paper presents DONet, a data-driven overlay network for live media streaming. The
core operations in DONet are very simple: every node periodically exchanges data …

Using microwaves to treat metal-based materials is rapidly emerging as an energy-efficient
tool to interact with metals for a number of processes such as sintering, melting, brazing …

Gossip-based communication protocols are appealing in large-scale distributed applications
such as information dissemination, aggregation, and overlay topology management. This …

Easy to deploy, robust, and highly resilient to failures, epidemic algorithms are a potentially
effective mechanism for propagating information in large peer-to-peer systems deployed on …

Unstructured overlays form an important class of peer-to-peer networks, notably when
content-based searching is at stake. The construction of these overlays, which is essentially …

The rubber hand illusion is a simple illusion where participants can be induced to report and
behave as if a rubber hand is part of their body. The induction is usually done by an …