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2004
15 years 7 months ago
Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System
This paper presents a distributed mobile storage system designed for storage elements connected by a network of non-uniform quality. Flexible data placement is crucial, and it lea...
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen L...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
MASTAQ: A Middleware Architecture for Sensor Applications with Statistical Quality Constraints
We present the design goals and functional components of MASTAQ, a data management middleware for pervasive applications that utilize sensor data. MASTAQ allows applications to sp...
Inseok Hwang, Qi Han, Archan Misra
AIMS
2008
Springer
16 years 22 days ago
A Theory of Closure Operators
We explore how fixed-point operators can be designed to interact and be composed to form autonomic control mechanisms. We depart from the idea that an operator is idempotent only ...
Alva L. Couch, Marc Chiarini
IPPS
2005
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
GHS: A Performance System of Grid Computing
Conventional performance evaluation mechanisms focus on dedicated distributed systems. Grid computing infrastructure, on another hand, is a shared collaborative environment constr...
Xian-He Sun, Ming Wu
WICOMM
2002
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Open issues on TCP for mobile computing
We discuss the design principles of TCP within the context of heterogeneous wired/wireless networks and mobile networking. We identify three shortcomings in TCP's behavior: (...
Vassilios Tsaoussidis, Ibrahim Matta