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COOPIS
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Mobile Agent Infrastructure for QoS Negotiation of Adaptive Distributed Applications
Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
Roberto Speicys Cardoso, Fabio Kon
VRCAI
2006
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Parallel-split shadow maps for large-scale virtual environments
Shadowing effects dramatically enhance the realism of virtual environments by providing useful visual cues. Shadow mapping is an efficient algorithm for real-time shadow renderin...
Fan Zhang, Hanqiu Sun, Leilei Xu, Lee Kit Lun
PERCOM
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Securing distributed data storage and retrieval in sensor networks
Sensor networks have been an attractive platform for pervasive computing and communication. Due to the lack of physical protection, however, sensor networks are vulnerable to atta...
Nalin Subramanian, Chanjun Yang, Wensheng Zhang
DCOSS
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Type-safe updating for modular WSN software
—Modular software, in which strongly-separated units of functionality can be independently added to and removed from a node’s running software, offers a promising approach to e...
Barry Porter, Utz Roedig, Geoff Coulson
HPDC
2005
IEEE
16 years 11 days ago
A new metric for robustness with application to job scheduling
Scheduling strategies for parallel and distributed computing have mostly been oriented toward performance, while striving to achieve some notion of fairness. With the increase in ...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman, Jayashree Sadagopa...