A failure detector is an important building block for faulttolerant distributed computing: mechanisms such as distributed consensus and group communication rely on the information provided by failure detectors in order to make progress and terminate. As such, erroneous information provided by the failure detector (or the absence of it) may delay decision-making or lead the upper-layer fault-tol...

MapReduce is an emerging programming paradigm and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data which has been widely applied in data-intensive systems. In cloud environment, node and task failure is no longer accidental but a common feature of large-scale systems. In MapReduce framework, although the rescheduling based fault-tolerant method is simple to implement, it fail...

This article will introduce a robust vision system which was implemented on a mobile manipulator. This robot has to find objects and deliver them to pre specified locations. In the first stage, a method which is named color adjacency method was employed. However, this method needs a large amount of memory and the process is very slow on computers with small memories. Therefore since the previou...

mobile sensor networks rely heavily on inter-sensor connectivity for collection of data. nodes in these networks monitor different regions of an area of interest and collectively present a global overview of some monitored activities or phenomena. a failure of a sensor leads to loss of connectivity and may cause partitioning of the network into disjoint segments. a number of approaches have bee...

ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks without a pre-installed infrastructure. such networks are widely used in military applications and in emergency situations as they permit the establishment of a communication network at very short notice with a very low cost. video is very sensitive for packet loss and wireless ad-hoc networks are error prone due to node mobility and weak links. h...

Ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks without a pre-installed infrastructure. Such networks are widely used in military applications and in emergency situations as they permit the establishment of a communication network at very short notice with a very low cost. Video is very sensitive for packet loss and wireless ad-hoc networks are error prone due to node mobility and weak links. H...