IEEE 802.11, the standard of wireless local area networks (WLANs), allows the coexistence of asynchronous and time-bounded traffic using the distributed coordination function (DCF)...
Task delegation presents one of the business process security leitmotifs. It defines a mechanism that bridges the gap between both workflow and access control systems. There are tw...
Video streaming with virtual pan/tilt/zoom functionality allows the viewer to watch arbitrary regions of a high-spatial-resolution scene. In our proposed system, the user controls...
Run-time management of modern Web-based services requires the integration of several algorithms and mechanisms for job dispatching, load sharing, admission control, overload detec...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...