There is growing interest in wireless personal area networks built from portable devices equipped with shortrange radio interfaces such as Bluetooth. These small networks (called ...
We propose a new connection management architecture for clustered Internet services called Active Connection Management (ACM) to improve the availability, quality of service, and ...
Decentralized file-sharing systems like Napster [11] and Gnutella [23] have popularized the peer-to-peer approach [18,20,22], which emphasizes the use of distributed resources in ...
Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
The task of supporting integrated multi-rate multimedia traffic in a bandwidth poor wireless environment poses a unique and challenging problem for network managers. In this paper...