The clear trend toward the integration of current and emerging applications and services in the Internet launches new demands on service deployment and management. Distributed serv...
Our energy production increasingly depends on renewable energy sources, which impose new challenges for distributed and decentralized systems. One problem is that the availability...
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Detlev Heinemann, Johannes Hu...
Wireless sensor networks have recently been suggested for many surveillance applications such as object monitoring, path protection, or area coverage. Since the sensors themselves...
2.5G and 3G cellular networks are becoming more and more widespread. Therefore, the need for value added services is increasing rapidly. One of the key services that operators see...
Many distributed multimedia applications have the ability to adapt to uctuations in the network conditions. By adjusting temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or man...