Grid and ubiquitous computing systems generally consist of a large number of networked nodes with applications implemented as distributed services or processes, respectively. A cr...
Wolfgang Trumler, Andreas Pietzowski, Benjamin Sat...
We outline a lightweight architecture to support novel application scenarios for P2P systems. These scenarios include merging and splitting of large networks, or multiplexing rela...
This paper presents Contory, a middleware specifically deployed to support provisioning of context information on mobile devices such as smart phones. Contory integrates multiple...
Overlay multicast streaming is built out of loosely coupled end-hosts (peers) that contribute resources to stream media to other peers. Peers, however, can be malicious. They may ...
Many routing protocols for MANETs do not promote a balanced use of resources among the participating nodes, since they are designed to optimize other criteria, such as the number ...