Proactively providing services to mobile individuals is essential for emerging ubiquitous applications. The major challenge in providing users with proactive services lies in cont...
Software updates typically require stopping and restarting an application, but many systems cannot afford to halt service, or would prefer not to. Dynamic software updating (DSU) ...
Iulian Neamtiu, Michael W. Hicks, Gareth Stoyle, M...
Abstract— Throughout the world, GSM cellular mobile networks are being upgraded to support the “always-on” General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Despite the apparent availabil...
Rajiv Chakravorty, Sachin Katti, Ian Pratt, Jon Cr...
Publish/subscribe messaging is a fundamental mechanism for interconnecting disparate services and systems in the service-oriented computing architecture. The quality of services (Q...
Hao Yang, Minkyong Kim, Kyriakos Karenos, Fan Ye, ...
Rapid adoption of virtualization technologies has led to increased utilization of physical resources, which are multiplexed among numerous workloads with varying demands and impor...