This paper considers the use of software mobile agents as proxy agents, to provide seamless mobility and cater for heterogeneous devices and network characteristics. We specificall...
An important characteristic of distributed grids is that they allow geographically separated multicomputers to be tied together in a transparent virtual environment to solve large...
In multi-tier enterprise systems, application servers are key components to implement business logic and provide services. To support a large number of simultaneous accesses from ...
—This paper studies the performance of contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols. In particular, a simple and accurate technique for estimating the throughput of the...
The importance of middleware and content adaptation has previously been demonstrated for pervasive use of Web-based applications. In this paper we propose a modular, extensible, a...