We investigate if WiFi access can be used to augment 3G capacity in mobile environments. We first conduct a detailed study of 3G and WiFi access from moving vehicles, in three dif...
Current trends suggest future software systems will rely on service-discovery protocols to combine and recombine distributed services dynamically in reaction to changing condition...
Christopher Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills, Andrew L. R...
Abstract. Optimistic replication is a fundamental technique for supporting collaborative work practices in mobile environments. However, eventual consistency, in contrast to immedi...
In this paper, we analyze a discrete-time preemptive resume priority queue. We consider two classes of customers which have to be served, where customers of one class have preempt...
— Efficient and scalable live-streaming overlay construction has become a hot topic recently. In order to improve the performance metrics, such as startup delay, source-to-end de...
Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni, D...