Protocol Boosters are functional elements, inserted anddeleted fromnetwork protocol stacks on an as-neededbasis. The Protocol Booster design methodology attempts to improve end-to-...
It is essential for security to be able to isolate mistrusting programs from one another, and to protect the host platform from programs. Isolation is difficult in object-oriented...
Abstract— Software components embedded in ubiquitous systems, especially those using wireless networking, are subject to unpredictable behaviors inherent to using these systems i...
We present a framework for integrated scheduling of continuous media (CM) and other applications. The framework, called ARC scheduling, consists of a rate-controlled on-line CPU sc...
Abstract. Extensible Component Platforms support the discovery, installation, starting, uninstallation of components at runtime. Since they are often targeted at mobile resource-co...