The GridFTP extensions to the File Transfer Protocol define a general-purpose mechanism
for secure, reliable, high-performance data movement. We report here on the Globus striped …

This document describes, among other things, improved methods, systems, and apparatus
for relaying packets on computer networks. Preferably, the relay function is accel erated at a …

Current Internet transports conflate transport semantics with endpoint addressing and flow
regulation, creating roadblocks to Internet evolution that we propose to address with a new …

Data-intensive applications frequently transfer large amounts of data over wide-area
networks. The performance achieved in such settings can often be improved by routing data …

This paper describes Service Clouds, a distributed infrastructure designed to facilitate rapid
prototy** and deployment of services that enhance communication performance …

Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby
promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management …

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have been proposed to provide cheap, easily deployable
and robust Internet access. The dominant Internet-access traffic from clients causes a …

With the emergence of grid and cloud technologies, the problem of scheduling tasks in
heterogeneous distributed systems has been arousing attention. In this paper, we present …

Many scientific applications need to stage large volumes of files from one set of machines to
another set of machines in a wide-area network. Efficient execution of such data transfers …

Phoebus is an infrastructure for improving end-to-end throughput in high-bandwidth, long-
distance networks by using a" session layer" protocol and" gateways" in the network …