We present a programming interface, called PICA, which aims to reduce the production cycle duration for communication protocols. It offers a user-friendly API that is very intuiti...
In traditional operating systems, modifying the network protocol code is a tedious and error-prone task, largely because the networking stack resides in the kernel. For this reaso...
We present a model of the IEEE 1394 Root Contention Protocol with a proof of Safety. This model has real-time properties which are expressed in the language of the event B method: ...
The distributed, project-oriented nature of digital libraries (DLs) has made them difficult to evaluate in aggregate. By modifying the methods and tools used to evaluate tradition...
: With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, reliability is of paramount importance. Often these services are implemented using a distributed server cluster architect...