Although the EDCA access mechanism of the 802.11e standard supports legacy DCF stations, the presence of DCF stations in the WLAN jeopardizes the provisioning of the service guaran...
Software frequently needs to adapt its behavior at run time to respond to changes in its execution environment. Different software components may use different approaches to adap...
Zhenxiao Yang, Zhinan Zhou, Betty H. C. Cheng, Phi...
In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...
With the acceleration of technological development we are reaching the point where our systems and their user interfaces become to some degree outdated 'legacy systems' ...
Les Nelson, Elizabeth F. Churchill, Laurent Denoue...
The evolution of any software product over its lifetime is unavoidable, caused both by bugs to be fixed and by new requirements appearing in the later stages of the product's...