A number of distributed applications require communication services with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. The QoS provisioning issue in the Internet has been addressed by the I...
Roberto Canonico, Simon Pietro Romano, Mauro Selli...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Timed token medium access protocols are widely adopted in real-time multiple access networks because of bounded access time. However, timed token protocols inadequately provide per...
For improved flexibility and concurrent usage existing transaction management models for Web services relax the isolation property of Web service-based transactions. Correctness o...
Mohammad Alrifai, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Peter Dolog, Wo...
A delay-bounded service in wireless ad hoc networks is challenging, as ad hoc networks do not provide any type of guarantees. Several protocols have been proposed to support appli...