In this paper, we identify the different roles and contract types which are important in providing Quality of Service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. A surprising res...
Multimediacommunication,with its strong requirementsfor high speed, assured quality, and reliable networking, is stimulating a great research e ort towards the development of real...
Recent studies in wireless sensor networks (WSN) have observed that the irregular link quality is a common phenomenon, rather than an anomaly. The irregular link quality, especiall...
We investigate the preservation of quality of service guarantees to a flow of packets in the presence of flow aggregation. In flow aggregation, multiple flows, known as the consti...
Abstract. Digital libraries are increasingly relying on distributed services to support increasingly complex tasks such as retrieval or preservation. While there is a growing body ...
Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Michael Kraxner...