Application-level multicast (ALM) is being increasingly recognized as a solution to support multipoint applications without the need for a network layer multicast protocol. Though...
Building distributed systems is an inherently difficult and complex task. Modern middleware architectures assist developers ding abstractions that hide transport layer functionali...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are distributed systems whose main goal is to collect and deliver data to applications. This paper proposes a reflective, service-oriented middlewa...
Distributed real-time automotive embedded systems have to be highly dependable as well as cost-efficient due to the large number of manufactured units. To close the gap between r...
Dietmar Schreiner, Markus Schordan, Karl M. Gö...
A challenging issue in today's server systems is to transparently deal with failures and application-imposed requirements for continuous operation. In this paper we address t...