Based on five design principles extracted from a survey of location systems, we present the Location Stack, a layered software engineering model for location in ubiquitous comput...
Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriell...
The increase of the web traffic has created the need for web switches that are able to balance the traffic to the server farms based on their contents (e.g. layer 7 switching). In...
1 Typically, individual DDOS solutions trade service level for security, resulting in overall decreased service performance. Further, each single DDOS solution presents a target fo...
Joseph D. Touch, Gregory G. Finn, Yu-Shun Wang, La...
Wi-Fi hotspots are one of the most promising scenarios for mobile computing. In this scenario, a very limiting factor is the scarcity of mobile-device energetic resources. Both har...
Giuseppe Anastasi, Marco Conti, Enrico Gregori, An...
Distributed real-time applications implement distributed applications with timeliness requirements. Such systems require a deterministic communication medium with bounded communic...
Sebastian Fischmeister, Insup Lee, Robert Trausmut...