Distributed Computing - IWDC 2003: 5th International Workshop, Kolkata, India, December 27-30, 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Scalable Group Rekeying for Secure Multicast: A Survey....Pages 1-10
A Note on Modalities for Nonconjunctive Global Predicates....Pages 11-25
A Synchronous Self-stabilizing Minimal Domination Protocol in an Arbitrary Network Graph....Pages 26-32
Decomposable Algorithms for Computing Minimum Spanning Tree....Pages 33-44
Clock Synchronization Algorithms and Scheduling Issues....Pages 45-55
Estimating Checkpointing, Rollback and Recovery Overheads....Pages 56-65
Analysis of BGP Update Surge during Slammer Worm Attack....Pages 66-79
TMS: A Scalable Transition Multicast Scheme....Pages 80-90
User Relevancy Improvisation Protocol....Pages 91-101
Characterizing Web Workloads – A Transaction-Oriented View....Pages 102-111
Internet Auctions: Some Issues and Problems....Pages 112-119
Transaction Management in Distributed Scheduling Environment for High Performance Database Applications....Pages 120-130
Gridscape: A Tool for the Creation of Interactive and Dynamic Grid Testbed Web Portals....Pages 131-142
Agent-Based Fair Load Distribution in Linux Web Server Cluster....Pages 143-152
Location Management by Movement Prediction Using Mobility Patterns and Regional Route Maps....Pages 153-162
Towards “Always-Connected” Wireless Network: A Framework of Infrastructureless Networks....Pages 163-173
Multi-path Transmission Algorithm for End-to-End Seamless Handover across Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks....Pages 174-183
Global Mobility Management: A Three Level Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks....Pages 184-193
Distributed Certified E-mail System for Mobile Users....Pages 194-204
Models of Self-Stabilization and Sensor Networks....Pages 205-214
Performance of a Collaborative Target Detection Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 215-224
Improving End-to-End Delay through Load Balancing with Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Using Directional Antenna....Pages 225-234
A Power-Efficient MAC Protocol with Two-Level Transmit Power Control in Ad Hoc Network Using Directional Antenna....Pages 235-244
Achieving Routing Based Medium Access Fairness in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 245-254
Various Distributed Shortest Path Routing Strategies for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks....Pages 255-264
Secure Mobile Computing....Pages 265-278
Towards Privacy Preserving Distributed Association Rule Mining....Pages 279-289
Performance Improvement of the Contract Net Protocol Using Instance Based Learning....Pages 290-299
A Hybrid Model for Optimising Distributed Data Mining....Pages 300-310
Local Decision Procedures for Avoiding the Tragedy of Commons....Pages 311-320
Tuning the Quality Parameters of a Firewall to Maximize Net Benefit....Pages 321-329
Load Sharing in a Transcoding Cluster....Pages 330-339
A Token Based Distributed Algorithm for Medium Access in an Optical Ring Network....Pages 340-349
An Efficient Technique for Dynamic Lightpath Establishment in Survivable Local/Metro WDM Optical Networks....Pages 350-360
Algorithms for Provisioning Survivable Multicast Sessions against Link Failures in Mesh Networks....Pages 361-371
A New Protection Model to Provide Availability-Guaranteed Service for Reliable Optical WDM Networks....Pages 372-382
Distributed Connection Control Protocols in All-Optical WDM Networks....Pages 383-392
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