While the backbone networks have experienced substantial changes in the last decade; the access networks have not changed much. Recently, passive optical networks (PONs) seem to be...
Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
Current web services are largely based on a synchronous request-response model that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol SOAP. Next-generation telecommunication networks, on the...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzan...
Wireless IEEE 802.11 networks are typically deployed as a convenient and flexible way to access wired backbones. However, due to the inherently shared nature and physical propert...
: Automated Guided Vehicles (or AGVs for short) have become an important option in material handling. In many applications, such as container terminals, the service area is often a...