This paper addresses the inherent unreliability and instability of worker nodes in large-scale
donation-based distributed infrastructures such as peer-to-peer and grid systems. We …

In the age of cloud, Grid, P2P, and volunteer distributed computing, large-scale systems with
tens of thousands of unreliable hosts are increasingly common. Invariably, these systems …

Edge computing has enabled a large set of emerging edge applications by exploiting data
proximity and offloading computation-intensive workloads to nearby edge servers. However …

The paper surveys the state of the art of task scheduling in Desktop Grid computing systems.
We describe the general architecture of a Desktop Grid system and the computing model …

Desktop Grid has emerged as an attractive computing paradigm for high throughput
applications. However, building such systems is complicated due to resources' …

Large-scale donation-based distributed infrastructures need to cope with the inherent
unreliability of participant nodes. A widely-used work scheduling technique in such …

Desktop Grid has recently received the strong attraction for executing high throughput
applications. Although Desktop Grid is different from Grid in many respects, there is no …

Hidden information is a critical issue for the successful delivery of SLAs in grid systems. It
arises when the agents (hardware and software resources) employed to serve a task belong …

A bad model design can be remedied, in many cases by decomposing a relation scheme
into a number of simpler schemes. It is desirable to have a lossless-join decomposition …

Volunteer computing systems are large-scale distributed systems with large number of
heterogeneous and unreliable Internet-connected hosts. Volunteer computing resources are …