The diversity of computers and networks within a distributed system makes these systems highly heterogeneous. System heterogeneity complicates the design of static applications tha...
Abstract. Although many different types of technologies for information systems have evolved over the last decades (such as databases, video systems, the Internet and mobile telec...
Egbert G. T. Jaspers, Rob G. J. Wijnhoven, R. Albe...
The distribution of digital video content over computer networks has become commonplace. Unfortunately, most digital video encoding standards do not degrade gracefully in the face...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
Abstract— We consider the problem of reachback communication in wireless sensor networks: multiple sensors are deployed on a field, and they collect local measurements of some r...