Abstract— The most widely applied resource allocation strategy is to balance, or equalize, the total workload assigned to each resource. In mobile multi-agent systems, this princ...
MANET environments suffer from changing connectivity conditions and radio contention among stations that conform it. Despite the several on-going endeavors, no simple and effectiv...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...
Unanticipated runtime events, such as faults, can lead to missed deadlines in real-time systems. While it is not always possible to know when a fault will occur, we can sometimes ...
Many embedded control systems comprise several control loops that are closed over a network of computation nodes. In such systems, complex timing behavior and communication lead t...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...