We describe the architecture of a federated system designed to allow the integration of structured, relational, data together with unstructured multimedia data. Two characteristic...
Alan Cole, Jim Christensen, Howard Sachar, Oleg Du...
MundoCore is a communication middleware specifically designed for the requirements of pervasive computing. To address the high degree of heterogeneity of platforms and networking ...
Erwin Aitenbichler, Jussi Kangasharju, Max MühlhÃ...
In this work we propose a QoS architecture for MANETs based on a probe-based distributed admission control mechanism and the IEEE 802.11e technology. Our aim is to improve peer-to...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Juan-Carlos Cano, ...
Service-oriented computing paradigm encourages the use of dynamic binding of application requirements to the resources needed to fulfill application tasks. Especially in pervasive...
Nanjangud C. Narendra, Umesh Bellur, S. K. Nandy, ...
Recent advances in distributed systems and transportable software and increasing demand for better quality-of-service (QOS) control in multiservice networks are driving a re-exami...
Andrew T. Campbell, Aurel A. Lazar, Henning Schulz...