All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
This paper presents a novel wireless access point architecture designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications over metropolitan scale are...
Adrian Friday, Maomao Wu, Stefan Schmid, Joe Finne...
In this paper, we propose an approach that provides the benefits of isolation in service-oriented applications where it is not feasible to use the traditional locking mechanisms u...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
The paper begins by considering what a Grid Computing Environment might be, why it is demanded, and how the authors’ HPspmd programming fits into this picture. We then review o...
Han-Ku Lee, Bryan Carpenter, Geoffrey Fox, Sang Bo...
This paper examines the effectiveness of combining multiple description coding (MDC) and multiple path transport (MPT) for video and image transmission in a multihop mobile radio n...
Nitin Gogate, Doo-Man Chung, Shivendra S. Panwar, ...