The majority of today’s Internet-based services are generally not concerned about the level of Quality of Service (QoS) presented to their users. For many such services, however...
Abstract. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are medium scale manifestations of a paintable or amorphous computing paradigm. WSNs are becoming increasingly important as they attain gr...
Derek M. Johnson, Ankur Teredesai, Robert T. Salta...
Modern high speed interconnects such as Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet have shifted the bottleneck in communication from the interconnect to the messaging software at the sending an...
In application server systems, such as J2EE, replication is an essential strategy for reliability and efficiency. Many J2EE implementations, both commercial and open-source, provid...
We conducted interviews with sixteen members of teams that worked across global time zone differences. Despite time zone differences of about eight hours, collaborators still foun...