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...
The third generation of mobile networks aims to offer services diversified to users, while guaranteeing acceptable QoS. This results in the setting up of strategies of increasingl...
Abstract. Modern parallel and distributed computing solutions are often built onto a “middleware” software layer providing a higher and common level of service between computat...
Emanuele Di Saverio, Marco Cesati, Christian Di Bi...
Snap-shot mechanisms are used to read a globally consistent set of variable values. Such a mechanism can be used to solve a variety of communication and synchronization problems, ...
Andreas Ermedahl, Hans Hansson, Marina Papatrianta...
Database systems for real-time applications must satisfy timing constraints associated with transactions. Typically, a timing constraint is expressed in the form of a deadline and ...