IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

As parallel computing systems increase in size, the interconnection network is becoming a critical subsystem. The current trend in network design is to use as few components as possible to interconnect the end nodes, thereby reducing cost and power ...

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication ($({\rm SpM}\times{\rm V})$) has been characterized as one of the most significant computational scientific kernels. The key algorithmic characteristic of the $({\rm SpM}\times{\rm V})$ kernel, that inhibits it from ...

Disruptive network communication entails transient network connectivity, asymmetric links, and unstable nodes, which pose severe challenges to data collection in sensor networks. Erasure coding can be applied to mitigate the dependency of feedback in ...

A graph $(G)$ is conditional $(k)$-edge-fault Hamiltonian if it remains Hamiltonian after deleting at most $(k)$ edges and each vertex incident to at least two nonfaulty edges. A graph $(G)$ is $(k)$-edge-fault Hamiltonian-connected if it remains ...

The electric power grid is a crucial infrastructure in our society and is always a target of malicious users and attackers. In this paper, we first introduce the concept of unidentifiable attack, in which the control center cannot identify the attack ...

This paper focuses on distributed data query in intermittently connected passive RFID networks, which are characterized by extraordinarily limited communication capacity and asynchronous and opportunistic communication links. To address such unique ...

Sensor networks are deemed suitable for large-scale deployments in the wild for a variety of applications. In spite of the remarkable efforts the community put to build the sensor systems, an essential question still remains unclear at the system level, ...

Peer-to-peer streaming has witnessed a great success thanks to the possibility of aggregating resources from all participants. Nevertheless, performance of the entire system may be highly degraded due to the presence of malicious peers that share bogus ...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications based on peer-to-peer (P2P) communications have been experiencing considerable growth in terms of number of users. To overcome filtering policies or protect the privacy of their users, most of these ...

The performance of wireless networks can be enhanced by performing network coding on the intermediate relay nodes. To enhance the throughput of large wireless networks, we can decompose them into a superposition of simple relay networks called two-hop ...

In this paper, we will address the modeling and optimal design of linear network coding (LNC) for secure unicast with multiple streams between the same source and destination pair. The objectives include 1) satisfying the weakly secure requirements, 2) ...

In the emerging environment of the Internet of things (IoT), through the connection of billions of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensors to the Internet, applications will generate an unprecedented number of transactions and amount of ...

The capacity of access links has increased dramatically in recent times, and bottlenecks are moving deeper into the Internet core. When bottlenecks occur in a core (or AS-AS peering) link, it is possible to use additional detour paths to improve the end-...

To cope with challenging problems faced by traditional multicast routing protocols, many branching-router (BR)-based multicast routing schemes with desirable features have been proposed. However, the current BR-based methods still lack efficient ...

Well-balanced workload among wireless access points (APs) in a wireless local-area network (WLAN) can improve the user experience for accessing the Internet. Most load balancing solutions in WLANs focuses on the optimization of AP operations, assuming ...

Mobile surveillance and sensing systems need a networking infrastructure that enables the mobile systems to transmit information gathered to a base station. We consider the problem of an efficient use of mobile robots to sense not only the region but ...

WS-BPEL language has become the industrial standard to design and orchestrate modular applications, formalizing service compositions and business relationships among providers and consumers. Once service level agreements (SLAs) among the parties are ...

The measurement of an emitter's position using electronic support passive sensors is termed passive localization and plays an important part both in electronic support and electronic attack. The emitting target could be in terrestrial or underwater ...

Three-dimensional network-on-chip (3D NoC) has been proposed to solve the complex on-chip communication issues in future 3D multicore systems. However, the thermal problems of 3D NoC are more serious than 2D NoC due to chip stacking. To keep the ...