RFID: opportunities and challenges

Y Wu, QZ Sheng, S Zeadally - Next-Generation Wireless Technologies: 4G …, 2013 - Springer
RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is a technology that transfers the information between
an electronic tag and an interrogator using radio waves. It is used to create a seamless link …

RFID enabled traceability networks: a survey

Y Wu, DC Ranasinghe, QZ Sheng, S Zeadally… - Distributed and Parallel …, 2011 - Springer
The emergence of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology brings significant social
and economic benefits. As a non line of sight technology, RFID provides an effective way to …

Bitdew: a programmable environment for large-scale data management and distribution

G Fedak, H He, F Cappello - SC'08: Proceedings of the 2008 …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Desktop Grids use the computing, network and storage resources from idle desktop PC's
distributed over multiple-LAN's or the Internet to compute a large variety of resource …

BitDew: A data management and distribution service with multi-protocol file transfer and metadata abstraction

G Fedak, H He, F Cappello - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2009 - Elsevier
Desktop Grids use the computing, network and storage resources from idle desktop PCs
distributed over multiple-LANs or the Internet to compute a large variety of resource …

[BUKU][B] Grid resource management: toward virtual and services compliant grid computing

F Magoulès, L Yu - 2008 - books.google.com
Grid technology offers the potential for providing secure access to remote services, thereby
promoting scientific collaborations in an unprecedented scale. Grid Resource Management …

Correlating topology and path characteristics of overlay networks and the internet

A Iosup, P Garbacki, J Pouwelse… - Sixth IEEE International …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-world IP applications such as Peer-to-Peer filesharing are now able to benefit from
network and location awareness. It is therefore crucial to understand the relation between …

Time utility functions for modeling and evaluating resource allocations in a heterogeneous computing system

LD Briceno, B Khemka, HJ Siegel… - … on Parallel and …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study considers a heterogeneous computing system and corresponding workload
being investigated by the Extreme Scale Systems Center (ESSC) at Oak Ridge National …

Optimizing the data distribution layer of boinc with bittorrent

F Costa, L Silva, G Fedak… - 2008 IEEE international …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we show how we applied BitTorrent data distribution techniques to the BOINC
middleware. Our goal was to decentralize BOINC's data model to take advantage of client …

Optimizing data distribution in desktop grid platforms

F Costa, L Silva, G Fedak, I Kelley - Parallel Processing Letters, 2008 - World Scientific
Current infrastructures for Volunteer Computing follow a centralized architecture for data
distribution, creating a potential bottleneck when tasks require large input files or the central …

A scalable super-peer approach for public scientific computation

C Mastroianni, P Cozza, D Talia, I Kelley… - Future Generation …, 2009 - Elsevier
Many types of distributed scientific and commercial applications require the submission of a
large number of independent jobs. One highly successful, and low cost mechanism for …