This paper presents a mailbox-based scheme for designing flexible and adaptive message delivery protocols in mobile agent (MA) systems. The scheme associates each mobile agent wit...
Attainment of software performance assurances in open, largely unpredictable environments has recently become an important focus for real-time research. Unlike closed embedded sys...
Ronghua Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, J...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
Peer-to-peer systems have emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. The usability of these systems depends on effective techniques to find and retrieve data; howeve...
Abstract—We propose a new geometric spanner for wireless ad hoc networks, which can be constructed efficiently in a distributed manner. It integrates the connected dominating se...
In this paper, we study a peer-to-peer media streaming system with the following characteristics: (1) its streaming capacity grows dynamically; (2) peers do not exhibit serverlike...
Dongyan Xu, Mohamed Hefeeda, Susanne E. Hambrusch,...
The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed collaborative applications. These applications are difficult to develop for wide area (possibly mobile) networ...
We present here the execution model of a policy-driven middleware for building secure distributed collaboration systems from their high level specifications. Our specification m...
Anand R. Tripathi, Tanvir Ahmed, Richa Kumar, Shre...