Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
Service providers have been motivated to develop and offer new services to their customers. The key question is what kind of futuristic and practical services customers need. This...
The exponential data growth rate of the Internet makes it increasingly difficult for people to find desired information in a timely fashion. Information filtering and dissemina...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have particular characteristics that do not allow to apply traditional distributed algorithms directly to them. In this work we adapt the algorithm...
Ana Paula R. da Silva, Fernando A. Teixeira, Rafae...
Increasingly, Internet-level distributed systems are oriented as much toward information access as they are toward computation. From computer-supported collaborative work to peer-...
Michael L. Scott, DeQing Chen, Sandhya Dwarkadas, ...
This paper describes the internal architecture and operation of an adaptable communication component called the MetaSocket. MetaSockets are created using Adaptive Java, a reflect...
Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Philip K. McKinley, Eric P. ...
The global information service in the Internet is a heterogeneous and rapidly evolving environment. Constantly, new information services are added, others are modified, removed or...
Mobile ad-hoc networks are typically very dynamic networks in terms of available communication partners, available network resources, connectivity, etc. Furthermore, the end-user ...
Thomas Plagemann, Vera Goebel, Carsten Griwodz, P&...