The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource--one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, an...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...
Web-based collaboration systems typically require dynamic and context-based interactions between people and services. To support such complex interaction scenarios, we introduce a...
The vision of ubiquitous computing is one in which resource constrained mobile devices form ad-hoc networks to enable the delivery of services that are sensitive and responsive to...
Conor Muldoon, Gregory M. P. O'Hare, John F. Bradl...
MANETs are self-organizing networks composed of mobile wireless nodes with often scarce resources. Distributed applications based on the P2P paradigm are by nature good candidates...