Abstract. Typical sensor nodes are composed of cheap hardware because they have to be affordable in great numbers. This means that memory and communication bandwidth are small, CPU...
ct-oriented modules that create an abstract interface for a specific class of hardware or software components. If these components provide "intelligent" functions, the ov...
The CORBA Object Group Service (OGS) is a new CORBA service that provides support for fault-tolerance through the replication of CORBA objects. In this paper, we present several o...
This paper presents a reconfigurable resource support mechanism to address scheduling issues in distributed embedded environment. A configurable object architecture is employed to...
This paper envisions a distributed network storage service with Quality-ofService (QoS) guarantees, and describes its architecture and key mechanisms. When fully realized, this se...