— Grid computing requires network services beyond what is currently provided by the Best-Effort Internet. Among the different approaches towards network Quality of Service, aggre...
Recent trends in Internet computing have led to the popularization of many forms of virtual organizations. Examples include supply chain management, grid computing, and collaborat...
Abstract— This paper describes the implementation and deployment of a novel architecture for a metropolitan open wireless access network, shared among different service providers...
Reliability, security, scalability and QoS (Quality-of-Service) have become key issues as we envision the future Internet. This paper presents the "Cognitive Packet Network (C...
Pervasive systems require context awareness in order to be able to provide “anywhere, anytime” computing to mobile users. One type of context information is location informati...