Communication delay is a key source of uncertainty in distributed systems. Existing approaches to reduce this uncertainty focus on maintaining sufficient surplus bandwidth; appli...
Numerous studies have shown that datacenter computers rarely operate at full utilization, leading to a number of proposals for creating servers that are energy proportional with r...
Dennis Abts, Michael R. Marty, Philip M. Wells, Pe...
A mobile agent is a software agent that has the ability to transfer its program code, data and execution state across a network to a remote computer for execution. In this paper, ...
Ubiquitous Web systems have to deal with varying context information in order to support context awareness. Accomplishing this requirement necessitates gathering, processing and r...
A principal challenge in operating system design is controlling system throughput and responsiveness while maximizing resource utilization. Unlike previous attempts in kernel reso...
Silviu S. Craciunas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Harald R...