We present the concept of alternative functionality for improving dependability in distributed embedded systems. Alternative functionality is a mechanism that complements traditio...
An ad hoc learning-automata-based protocol for wireless LANs, capable of operating efficiently under bursty traffic conditions, is introduced. According to the proposed protocol, ...
Petros Nicopolitidis, Georgios I. Papadimitriou, A...
Many real-world problems are inherently hierarchically structured. The use of this structure in an agent’s policy may well be the key to improved scalability and higher performa...
The main problem we address in this paper is how to map the requirements of a known media service workload into the corresponding system resource requirements and to accurately siz...
— Incremental deployment of a new network service or protocol is typically a hard problem, especially when it has to be deployed in the routers. First, an incrementally deployabl...