The widespread deployment of inexpensive communications technology, computational resources in the networking infrastructure, and network-enabled end devices poses an interesting ...
Steven E. Czerwinski, Ben Y. Zhao, Todd D. Hodes, ...
Government e-services available to citizens represent one of the most frequent and critical points of contact between public administrations and citizens. In addition to common se...
Resource discovery is a problem common to almost all distributed systems. Instead of resulting in a one or a small number of discovery mechanisms, completely different and incompa...
— Existing methods for local area service discovery either don’t scale or rely on a trustworthy directory server; in some environments these restrictions are unacceptable or im...
Richard Black, Heimir Sverrisson, Laurent Massouli...
This paper presents a middleware infrastructure for integration of heterogeneous embedded devices in ubiquitous computing environments. The proposed infrastructure employs the Dev...