Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply ...
Abstract— For peer-to-peer services to be effective, participating nodes must cooperate, but in most scenarios a node represents a self-interested party and cooperation can neith...
Seth James Nielson, Scott A. Crosby, Dan S. Wallac...
The inherent and increasing complexity, heterogeneity and unpredictability of computer networks make the task of managing these systems highly complex. The autonomic computing para...
Romildo Martins da Silva Bezerra, Joberto Sé...
With the proliferation of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.), location-based services have become more and more popular in recent years. However, users have to reveal ...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, Sus...
Service availability in wireless networks is highly dependent on efficient resource allocation and guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) amid overloads and failures. This paper add...