Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on ne...
A distinct characteristic of multistate systems (MSS) is that the systems and/or their components may exhibit multiple performance levels (or states) varying from perfect operation...
Suprasad V. Amari, Liudong Xing, Akhilesh Shrestha...
—The use of wireless sensor networks is rapidly growing in various types of applications that benefit from spatially distributed data collection. Some of these applications, suc...
Abstract--End-to-end connectivity is growing increasingly diverse, with orders of magnitude differences in characteristics throughout the network. At the same time, most applicatio...
Much of the success of the Internet services model can be attributed to the popularity of a class of workloads that we call Online Data-Intensive (OLDI) services. These workloads ...
David Meisner, Christopher M. Sadler, Luiz Andr&ea...