{"title":"A Floating Backbone for Internet over the Ocean","authors":"M. Jäger, Gero Mühl","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.33","url":null,"abstract":"Satellite-based Internet access, the preferred solution for remote locations on the ocean, either offers a low-bandwidth connection or is very expensive to deploy. A backbone structure that provides ocean-wide Internet coverage could provide an alternative to satellite uplinks. With a wide-area network forming a mesh of nodes using floating and moving objects as well as coastal facilities, the network would use next-generation long-range surface radio technology to provide medium- to high-bandwidth Internet access. To achieve high-bandwidth Internet access under these circumstances, the backbone must leverage state-of-the-art sensor network technology, autonomous routing mechanisms, and self-organizing abilities.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125077920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single Sign-on and Social Networks","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.35","url":null,"abstract":"Call it what you will - single sign-on, federated identity, one-stop authentication - letting users sign on to the Internet once and securely access network resources anywhere has been one of the industry's enduring quests.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131715132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boon Low, Kathryn Cassidy, David Fergusson, Malcolm P. Atkinson, E. V. Meer, Mags McGeever
{"title":"Distributed Computing Education, Part 5: Coming to Terms with Intellectual Property Rights","authors":"Boon Low, Kathryn Cassidy, David Fergusson, Malcolm P. Atkinson, E. V. Meer, Mags McGeever","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.34","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed computing teaching environments (and e-science education in general) require a supportive policy framework that encourages cooperation and sharing. If teachers can share educational content rather than creating their own, they increase the number of quality resources available to them. However, in sharing these resources, IPR issues such as copyright ownership and licensing must be considered.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123436488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Helge Parzyjegla, Michael A. Jaeger, Gero Mühl, Torben Weis
{"title":"Model-Driven Development and Adaptation of Autonomous Control Applications","authors":"Helge Parzyjegla, Michael A. Jaeger, Gero Mühl, Torben Weis","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.32","url":null,"abstract":"Our vision is driven by rapid progress in hardware development, such as miniaturizing computing devices. On the software side, however, application development for such a setting is challenging for several reasons. One is the heterogeneity of devices and networking technologies, which vastly increases application development complexity. Other reasons include frequent reconfigurations and communication faults (such as network partitioning) that have to be handled appropriately. These reasons present problems for software developers - they can't predetermine configurations or anticipate all of the potential runtime faults that might occur. Furthermore, users might not be willing or able to handle complex configuration or communication issues - they want to install their devices and use applications. Thus, devices and applications must be able to work as autonomously as possible, with little to no manual user intervention. Specifically, applications must be able to adapt at runtime to a changing environment and recover from faults.Here, we elaborate on ideas we presented in a previous paper2 and discuss in more detail a model- driven approach to developing and adapting autonomous control applications. In contrast to conventional approaches, we use the application model not only for design and deployment but also for dynamically adapting the application at runtime. This is in line with research that emphasizes the importance of exploiting the latent knowledge contained in models at runtime.3 Our goal is to empower application developers to create self-organizing and robust actuator and sensor network (AS-Net) applications with minimal expert knowledge. Our work is part of the Model-Driven Development of Self-Organizing Control Applications project (www.kbs.tu-berlin.de/modoc).","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129283703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Crisis and the Role of Risk-Management Software","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.31","url":null,"abstract":"In the aftermath of the global market meltdown and ensuing economic crisis, leading risk-management technologists are saying it's time for the engineering community to reassess the shortcomings of old risk models based on rigid math and physical sciences assumptions. Despite shortcomings, existing technologies might have helped avoid the current market disaster if they'd been more widely used. Whether the failure to use these tools was a legitimate but shortsighted business practice or malfeasance is still an open question, but also now a public one.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127464074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Wi-Fi Technology Racing Past Standards Process","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.29","url":null,"abstract":"While the IEEE Task Group for the 802.11n network standard stalls on ratification, successful network deployments proceed apace, especially in universities. The IEEE 802.11n Task Group keeps pushing back the date for full ratification of the latest edition of the popular wireless network standard. The market, however, isn't waiting. Spearheaded by universities, the 802.11n technology has recently entered \"enterprise\" architectures with a flourish. According to the BT survey, While many new technologies take years to be adopted, 802.11n appears to be exceeding the typical adoption curve. Although the IEEE might not be ready to ratify its standard, the Wi-Fi Alliance - an umbrella group of 802.11 technology vendors - has been certifying the interoperability of the new gear's Draft 2.0 version since June 2007. Alliance executive director Edgar Figueroa sainteroperability of the new gear's Draft 2.0 version sinceys the 11n technology is booming in the marketplace.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126325688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Fergusson, P. Jandrić, Richard P. Hopkins, E. V. Meer, Malcolm P. Atkinson
{"title":"Distributed Computing Education, Part 3: The Winter School Online Experience","authors":"David Fergusson, P. Jandrić, Richard P. Hopkins, E. V. Meer, Malcolm P. Atkinson","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.26","url":null,"abstract":"The International Summer Schools in Grid Computing (ISSGC) have provided numerous international students with the opportunity to learn grid systems, as detailed in part 2 of this series (http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.20). The International Winter School on Grid Computing 2008 (IWSGC 08) followed the successful summer schools, opening up the ISSGC experience to a wider range of students because of its online format. IWSGC 08 repurposed summer school materials and added resources such as the ICEAGE digital library and summer-school-tested t-Infrastructures such as GILDA (Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities). The winter schools shared the goals of the summer school, which emphasized disseminating grid knowledge.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125364226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISP Traffic Management: Will Innovation or Regulation Ensure Fairness?","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.27","url":null,"abstract":"Two North American telecommunications regulatory agencies are proactively entering into some gritty details of network management. The results might announce a new era of strengthened regulatory capabilities to enforce net neutrality. The new traffic-management discussion centers on how far Internet service providers (ISPs) can go in limiting customers' bandwidth and how much information they must disclose about how they're doing it. In the US, the Federal Communications Commission found that cable ISP Comcast illegally used deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to throttle application-specific P2P packets. Specifically, Comcast separated BitTorrent P2P packets from the message transport, then used TCP reset packets to make the P2P packets look as though they were coming from other end users' computers.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115168000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Web 2.0 Becomes Web Uh-Oh","authors":"G. Goth","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.25","url":null,"abstract":"The promise of cross-organizational computing and communications has long been a holy grail for network architects. From the dawn of the Arpanet to today's deployments of service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and remotely hosted applications, wider reuse of standards-compliant software components has been a constant goal. The rise of social networks and Web 2.0 principles are the latest trends in reusing software on nonhierarchical architectures. When these architectures work - when user identities are protected, when process security is ensured, and when there is consensus on both technical and contextual attributes of a given piece of software - the cross-organizational model has great potential. However, when the needs of disparate communities are not aligned, the results can be embarrassing, at the very least.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126707937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Think Parallel: Teaching Parallel Programming Today","authors":"A. Marowka","doi":"10.1109/MDSO.2008.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MDSO.2008.24","url":null,"abstract":"Parallel computing is rapidly entering mainstream computing, and multicore processors can now be found in the heart of supercomputers, desktop computers, and laptops. Consequently, applications will increasingly need to be parallelized to fully exploit the multicore processor throughput gains that are becoming available. Unfortunately, writing parallel code is more complex than writing serial code. An introductory parallel computing course aims to introduce students to this technology shift and to explain that parallelism calls for a different way of thinking and new programming skills. The course covers theoretical topics and offers practical experience in writing parallel algorithms on state-of-the-art parallel computers, parallel programming environments, and tools.","PeriodicalId":111285,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Distributed Systems Online","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132823021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}