— Research on multimedia adaptation usually assumes undifferentiated, best-effort service from the network, and relies on signaling mechanisms such as packet loss rates for feedb...
Clusters of workstations are increasingly being viewed as a cost-e ective alternative to parallel supercomputers. However, resource management and scheduling on workstations clust...
Abdur Chowdhury, Lisa D. Nicklas, Sanjeev Setia, E...
Abstract. Pervasive computing applications must be sufficiently autonomous to adapt their behaviour to changes in computing resources and user requirements. This capability is know...
Communication in distributed applications across a wide area network needs to cope with heterogenous and constantly changing network conditions. A promising approach to address thi...
One of the topics of paramount importance in the development of Grid middleware is the impact of faults, since their probability of occurrence in a Grid infrastructure and in larg...