Abstract. In this paper we motivate an Architecture Description Language (ADL) for mobile distributed systems based on the π-calculus. Different from other approaches, the non-fu...
Current Quality of Service models such as those embodied in the Differentiated Services proposals, rely on data path aggregation to achieve scalability. Data path aggregation bund...
In recent years, there has been a rapid and wide spread of nontraditional computing platforms, especially mobile and portable computing devices. As applications become increasingl...
— In location-based, mobile continual query (CQ) systems, two key measures of quality of service (QoS) are: freshness and accuracy. To achieve freshness, the CQ server must perfo...
To provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in open and unpredictable environments, the utilization control problem is defined to keep the processor utilization at the schedula...