Abstract. The emergence of handheld devices associated with wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. First, mobility is becoming a key characteristic; mo...
As peer-to-peer systems are evolving from simplistic application specific overlays to middleware platforms hosting a range of potential applications it has become evident that incr...
Gareth Tyson, Paul Grace, Andreas Mauthe, Gordon S...
The home environment becomes ready to host distributed devices dynamically adapting to service availability and reacting to user location and user activity. Sensors, high definiti...
Finding data items is one of the most basic services of any distributed system. It is particular challenging in ad-hoc networks, due to their inherent decentralized nature and lac...
Broadcasting is a vital communication mechanism in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, as it is the key element for exchanging control packets to support some services such as management and ...
Dimitrios Liarokapis, Alireza Shahrabi, Andreas Ko...