: If Topic Maps should be exchanged in distributed environments a common semantic problem occurs: Do two Topics refer to the same Subject? If they describe the same Subject the giv...
Present-day object-oriented middleware provides little support for the distribution, replication and caching of the state of a distributed object. This makes these platforms unsui...
Arno Bakker, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbau...
Accountability mechanisms, which rely on after-the-fact verification, are an attractive means to enforce authorization policies. In this paper, we describe an operational model of ...
Radha Jagadeesan, Alan Jeffrey, Corin Pitcher, Jam...
Abstract—In wireless networks with random node distribution, the underlying point process model and the channel fading process are usually considered separately. A unified frame...
Time synchronization in highly distributed wireless systems like sensor and ad hoc networks is extremely important in order to maintain a consistent notion of time throughout the ...
Murtuza Jadliwala, Qi Duan, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, ...