In this paper, we explore flexible name resolution as a way of supporting extensibility for wide-area distributed services. Our approach, called Active Names, maps names to a cha...
Amin Vahdat, Michael Dahlin, Thomas E. Anderson, A...
The emergence of pervasive networked data sources, such as web services, sensors, and mobile devices, enables context-sensitive, mobile applications. We have developed a programmi...
Norman H. Cohen, Hui Lei, Paul Castro, John S. Dav...
Applications running on a mobile and wireless devices must be able to adapt gracefully to limited and fluctuating network resources. The variety of applications, platforms upon w...
Yuri Dotsenko, Eyal de Lara, Dan S. Wallach, Willy...
To usefully query a location-based service, a mobile device must typically present its own location in its query to the server. This may not be acceptable to clients that wish to ...
One of the major challenges of post-PC computing is the need to reduce energy consumption, thereby extending the lifetime of the batteries that power these mobile devices. Memory ...
Alvin R. Lebeck, Xiaobo Fan, Heng Zeng, Carla Schl...