Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
Abstract— A location tracking sensor network is being deployed in several buildings at the University of Michigan to help explore issues in design of pervasive environments. Mana...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...