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- articleNovember 2017
High-performance simulation of nation-sized smart grids
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 32, Issue 6December 2017, Pages 647–668https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2016.1218876Schematic illustration of a smart grid partitioned into four sub-networks which consist of smart buildings squares, substations circles, sinks and sources triangles for a distributed memory architecture.
- articleSeptember 2017
Performance analysis of structured peer-to-peer overlays for mobile networks
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 32, Issue 5September 2017, Pages 522–548https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2016.1203917Distributed Hash Table DHT based Peer-to-Peer P2P overlays have been widely researched and deployed in many applications such as file sharing, IP telephony, content distribution and media streaming applications. However, their deployment has largely ...
- articleJanuary 2017
Building wireless sensor networks with biological cultures: components and integration challenges
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 32, Issue 1January 2017, Pages 56–73https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2016.1145220This graphical abstract represents the different components of a node of a sensor networks. This paper studies the possibilities to replace each of these components with a biological counterpart enabling similar functionalities. The benefits and ...
- articleMay 2016
Optimistic Byzantine fault tolerance
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 31, Issue 3May 2016, Pages 254–267https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2015.1078802The primary concern of traditional Byzantine fault tolerance is to ensure strong replica consistency by executing incoming requests sequentially according to a total order. Speculative execution at both clients and server replicas has been proposed as a ...
- articleMarch 2016
Representations of task assignments in distributed systems using Young tableaux and symmetric groups
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 31, Issue 2April 2016, Pages 152–175https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2014.997729This article presents a novel approach to representing task assignments for partitioned agents respectively, tasks in distributed systems. A partition of agents respectively, tasks is represented by a Young tableau, which is one of the main tools in ...
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- articleJanuary 2016
Min-heap-based scheduling algorithm: an approximation algorithm for homogeneous and heterogeneous distributed systems
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 31, Issue 1January 2016, Pages 64–84One of the most important issues in the design of distributed systems is process scheduling, which maps applications to resources in an attempt to reduce the application execution time or maximise resource utilisation. The complexity involved in finding ...
- articleJanuary 2016
Twister: the development of a peer-to-peer microblogging platform
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 31, Issue 1January 2016, Pages 20–33This paper proposes a new microblogging architecture based on peer-to-peer networks overlays. The proposed platform comprises three mostly independent overlay networks. The first provides distributed user registration and authentication and is based on ...
- articleSeptember 2015
Decentralised workflow scheduling in volunteer computing systems
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 30, Issue 5September 2015, Pages 343–365https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2014.973876Volunteer computing systems exploiting large amounts of geographically dispersed resources on the Internet for solving complex scientific problems. However, scheduling scientific workflows in a fully decentralised way and low overhead is a challenging ...
- articleSeptember 2015
Determining the appropriate number of nodes for fast mining of frequent patterns in distributed computing environments
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 30, Issue 5September 2015, Pages 380–392https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2014.927470The rapid growth of data brought new challenges, the execution efficiency and scalability, for mining frequent patterns FPs. To accelerate the execution, many algorithms based on the generate-and-test approach or FP-growth utilising parallel distributed ...
- articleJanuary 2015
- articleMay 2014
Secure and threshold-based power usage control in smart grid environments
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 29, Issue 3May 2014, Pages 264–289https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2013.850690Due to various advantages such as energy efficiency, reliability and self-monitoring, the smart grid technology has been emerging as the next-generation intelligent power grid system. Some of the well-known telecommunication, IT and power industries ...
- articleMarch 2014
OpenCOPI: middleware integration for Ubiquitous Computing
- Frederico Lopes,
- Flavia C. Delicato,
- Thais Batista,
- Everton Cavalcante,
- Thiago Pereira,
- Paulo F. Pires,
- Paulo Ferreira,
- Reginaldo Mendes
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 29, Issue 2April 2014, Pages 178–212https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2013.831415In this paper, we present OpenCOPI Open COntext Platform Integration, a Service-Oriented Architecture-based middleware platform that supports the integration of services provided by distinct sources, ranging from services offered by simple systems to ...
- articleDecember 2013
Highly reliable message-passing mechanism for cluster file system
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 28, Issue 6December 2013, Pages 556–575https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.757316With the increase in personal computer clusters in popularity and quantity, message passing between nodes has been an important issue for high failure rate in the network. File access in a cluster file system often contains several sub-operations; each ...
- articleDecember 2013
A fully informed model-based checkpointing protocol for preventing useless checkpoints
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 28, Issue 6December 2013, Pages 485–518https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.736508Checkpointing and rollback recovery are widely used techniques for handling failures in distributed systems. When processes involved in a distributed computation are allowed to take checkpoints independently without any coordination with each other, ...
- articleJune 2013
A study on the redundancy of flooding in unstructured p2p networks
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 28, Issue 3June 2013, Pages 214–229https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.724067In this study we consider flooding, a fundamental mechanism for network discovery and query routing, in unstructured peer-to-peer networks. Flooding has well-known properties such as fast responses and quick network coverage but at the same time it ...
- articleApril 2013
Using eager strategies to improve NFS I/O performance
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 28, Issue 2April 2013, Pages 134–158https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.658801Typical network file system NFS clients write lazily: they leave dirty pages in the page cache and defer writing to the server. This reduces network traffic when applications repeatedly modify the same set of pages. However, this approach can lead to ...
- articleFebruary 2013
Energy-efficient distributed wireless sensor network scheme for cluster detection
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 28, Issue 1February 2013, Pages 1–28https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.729584Detection of an environmental phenomenon, e.g. air pollution and oil spills, occurs when a group of sensors continuously produces similar readings i.e. data streams over a period of time. Thus, detection of environmental phenomena is basically a process ...
- articleDecember 2012
Bounded communication between nodes of a networked control system as a strategy of scheduling
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 27, Issue 6December 2012, Pages 481–502https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.717941In a networked control system, several nodes exchange information through a network, to achieve specific control goals and thus increasing network traffic. This affects the overall system performance. Several approaches try to satisfy requirements of ...
- articleDecember 2012
Minimising energy consumption through mobility with connectivity preservation in sensor networks
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), Volume 27, Issue 6December 2012, Pages 521–540https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2012.674129In typical mobile wireless sensor networks, flows sent from collecting sensors to a sink could traverse inefficient resource expensive paths and experience arbitrary delays. This is particularly problematic in event-based sensor network where flows are ...