Because of their severe resource-restrictions and limited user interfaces, smart everyday objects must often rely on remote resources to realize their services. This paper shows ho...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
Abstract. In recent years, the rapid development of network infrastructure and the spread of terminals capable of network access have made it possible to access networks at any pla...
— In IEEE 802.11 wireless networks, EDCA users’ performance may be degraded because of the existence of legacy users and therefore would get a lower priority service. Such effe...
—Location sharing is a fundamental component of mobile online social networks (mOSNs), which also raises significant privacy concerns. The mOSNs collect a large amount of locati...