Mobile hosts in a wireless network can move from one location to another while communicating with other hosts. A challenge is to provide seamless network access for mobile hosts a...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
The past few years have seen a burst in public interest and widespread use of portable electronic devices featuring both mature and emerging technologies for wireless communication...
1 The reader collision problem occurs when the signal from one reader interferes with the signal from other readers. Solutions like RTS-CTS are not applicable because a reader may ...
High-performance execution in distributed computing environments often requires careful selection and configuration not only of computers, networks, and other resources but also o...
Steven Fitzgerald, Ian T. Foster, Carl Kesselman, ...