* This paper is supported by National 863 Hi-Tech R&D Project under grant No.2002AA1Z2102 Abstract with the dramatically increasing of users accessing Internet services, many researchers employed cluster server to provide their Internet services and proposed all kinds of scheduling strategies to address the imbalance among real servers. However, most of them are based on TCP connections and pay...

With the advent of smart vehicles, several new latency-critical and data-intensive applications are emerged in Vehicular Networks (VNs). Computation offloading has as a viable option allowing to resort nearby edge servers for remote processing within requested service latency requirement. Despite advantages, computation over resource-limited servers, together with vehicular mobility, is still c...

A secure multi-party batch matrix multiplication problem (SMBMM) is considered, where the goal to allow a master efficiently compute pairwise products of two batches massive matrices, by distributing computation across S servers. Any X colluding servers gain no information about input, and gains additional input beyond product. solution called Generalized Cross Subspace Alignment codes with Noi...

background: ferroportin (fpn), a regulator of iron homeostasis is a conserved membrane protein that exports iron across the enterocytes, macrophages and hepatocytes into the blood circulation. fpn has also critical influence on survival of microorganisms whose growth is dependent upon iron, thus preparation of fpn is needed to study the role of iron in immunity and pathogenesis of micoorganisms...

Performance tuning often involves consideration of adding another server to the system. Owing to changes in technology, the additional server may be of a service rate different from that of the existing servers. Moreover, with heterogeneous servers, consideration must be given to what service discipline should be employed. An analysis is provided of the effect on waiting time using two service ...

Future systems have been characterized as ubiquitous, pervasive, and invisible. They will consist of devices that are diverse in size, performance, and power consumption. Some of these devices will be mobile, posing additional requirements to system software and applications. The focus will move from technology to deployment and ease of use of services. Consequently, traditional paradigms for r...

Several Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) applications work in a multi-tiered architecture, where the server takes advantage of delegated user credentials to act on behalf of the user and contact additional servers. In effect, the server acts as an agent on behalf of the user. Examples include web applications that need to access e-mail or file servers, including ...

With a changing structure of networks and application systems due to the requirements of decentralised enterprises and open service markets, distributed systems with rapidly increasing complexity are evolving. New concepts for an efficient management of such systems have to be developed. Focussing on the service level, examples for existing concepts are trading to find services in a distributed...

In a mobile edge computing (MEC) network, devices, also called clients, offload their computations to multiple servers that provide additional resources. Since the are placed at network edge, e.g., cell-phone towers, transmission delays between and clients shorter compared those of cloud computing. addition, can tasks other nearby with available resources by exploiting Fog Computing (FC) paradi...

While traditional Internet servers mainly served static and later also dynamic content, the popularity of Web services is increasing rapidly. Web services incorporate additional overhead compared to traditional web interaction. This overhead increases the demand on Internet servers which is of particular importance when the request rate to the server is high. We conduct experiments that show th...