Aimed to provide computation ubiquitously, pervasive computing is perceived as a means to provide a user the transparency of anywhere, anyplace, anytime computing. Pervasive compu...
K. Kalapriya, S. K. Nandy, Deepti Srinivasan, R. U...
Napster pioneered the idea of peer-to-peer file sharing, and supported it with a centralized file search facility. Subsequent P2P systems like Gnutella adopted decentralized sea...
Yatin Chawathe, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Lee Breslau, Nic...
Mobile Code (MC) technologies provide appealing solutionsfor the development of Internet applications.For instance, Java technologyfacilitates dynamic loading of application code ...
Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefane...
Real-time media servers need to service hundreds and, possibly, thousands of clients, each with their own quality of service (QoS) requirements. To guarantee such diverse QoS requ...
Richard West, Karsten Schwan, Christian Poellabaue...
Increased platform heterogeneity and varying resource availability in distributed systems motivates the design of resource-aware applications, which ensure a desired performance l...