In order to achieve the best application-level Quality-of-Service (QoS), multimedia applications need to be dynamically tuned and reconfigured to adapt to fluctuating computing an...
— Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that...
Samer Al-Kiswany, Matei Ripeanu, Sudharshan S. Vaz...
Many modern software systems are often large, distributed, written in more than one programming language, and developed using pre-built components. This paper presents the results...
—We consider a Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) whose users (nodes) are connected by an underlying Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) substrate. Users can declaratively express high-level...
Comparing with the classical barcode system, RFID extends the operational distance from inches to a number of feet (passive RFID tags) or even hundreds of feet (active RFID tags)....