In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
Applications running on a mobile and wireless devices must be able to adapt gracefully to limited and fluctuating network resources. The variety of applications, platforms upon w...
Yuri Dotsenko, Eyal de Lara, Dan S. Wallach, Willy...
One of the major challenges of post-PC computing is the need to reduce energy consumption, thereby extending the lifetime of the batteries that power these mobile devices. Memory ...
Alvin R. Lebeck, Xiaobo Fan, Heng Zeng, Carla Schl...
Abstract. The last decades have seen the emergence of the sea of objects paradigm for structuring complex distributed systems on workstations and local area networks. In this appro...
: As part of a larger research on multimedia traffic performance over GPRS, we present a QoS study focusing on one parameter: bandwidth. GPRS is an evolutionary phase and a critica...