With the increasing use of real-time multimedia applications over IP networks, efficient use of resources, especially in wireless networks, is becoming a necessity. In order to ha...
—Bringing together heterogeneous computing devices and appliances gives rise to a spontaneous environment where resources exchange messages, such as a mobile phone telling the ca...
With the growth of mobile computing, users will have simultaneous access to multiple overlaid networks, each with Zdifferent characteristics, services and costs. This paper introd...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
Snowbird is a middleware system based on virtual machine (VM) technology that simplifies the development and deployment of bimodal applications. Such applications alternate betwee...