Java's remote method invocation mechanism provides a number of features that extend the functionality of traditional client server-based distributed systems. However, there a...
In this paper we show how high-level UML models of mobile computing applications can be analysed for classical performance measures such as throughput. The approach proceeds by co...
Stephen Gilmore, Valentin Haenel, Jane Hillston, J...
Abstract. The ambient calculus is a calculus of computation that allows active processes (mobile ambients) to move between sites. A firewall is said to be protective whenever it d...
—Data security is one of the major challenges that prevents the wider acceptance of mobile devices, especially within business and government environments. It is non-trivial to p...
DHTs can locate objects in a peer-to-peer network within an efficient amount of overlay hops. Since an overlay hop is likely to consist of multiple physical hops, the ratio betwee...