Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
Mobile application components can be effectively and uniformly modeled in terms of autonomous agents moving across different context during execution. In this paper, we introduce a...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Marco Mamei, Fran...
As mobile and embedded devices become widespread, the management and configuration of the software in the devices is increasingly turning into a critical issue. OSGi is a busines...
ion. First described in RFC 707,1 with implementation approaches and details later provided by Andrew Birrell and Bruce Nelson,2 RPC has influenced distributed systems research and...
Abstract. The literature on cross-layer protocols, protocol improvements, and design methodologies for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is reviewed and a taxonomy is proposed. The c...