Abstract. Endpoint admission control is a mechanism for achieving scalable services by pushing quality-of-service functionality to end hosts. In particular, hosts probe the network...
When admitting electronic media as a means for citizens to approach public authorities – i.e., when advancing official proceedings towards e-Government – security is an indisp...
Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
The availability of high-speed transmission media and networking equipment in contemporary networks, as well as the evolution of quality-demanding applications has focused researc...
In this paper, we propose a new Ontology-enabled Service Oriented Architecture (OSOA) for Pervasive Computing that is built on Web Services architecture, and incorporates Universa...