Policies form an important part of management and can be an effective means of implementing self-adaptation in pervasive systems. Most policy-based systems focus on large-scale ne...
Kevin P. Twidle, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Morris...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a program’s execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...
The need for reliable data communication performed in critical conditions and the respect of real-time constraints is an open issue in radio-military networks, where fixed and nom...
We present MediaBroker, a distributed framework designed to support pervasive computing applications. Specifically, we propose an architecture consisting of a transport engine and...
Martin Modahl, Ilya Bagrak, Matthew Wolenetz, Phil...
—Existing cooperative diversity protocols are designed with the inherent assumption that users exhibit cooperative behavior all the time. However, in a practical cooperative wire...