1 As distributed systems scale up and are deployed into increasingly sensitive settings, demand is rising for a new generation of communications middleware in support of applicati...
Ken Birman, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Danny Dolev, Tudo...
The development of a Distributed Information System (DIS) can lead to critical bottlenecks because of the underlying architecture, which is becoming more and more complex. Todays ...
In this paper, we motivate the importance of the field of mobile computing and survey current practical and formal approaches. We argue that the existing formalisms are not suffic...
Klaus Bergner, Radu Grosu, Andreas Rausch, Alexand...
The characteristics of mobile environments, with the possibility of frequent disconnections and fluctuating bandwidth, have forced a rethink of traditional middleware. In particu...
Mobile phones have two sensors: a camera and a microphone. The widespread and ubiquitous nature of mobile phones around the world makes it attractive to build a large-scale sensor...