We describe our experiences with the Chubby lock service, which is intended to provide coarse-grained locking as well as reliable (though low-volume) storage for a loosely-coupled...
Loose coupling is often quoted as a desirable property of systems architectures. One of the main goals of building systems using Web technologies is to achieve loose coupling. How...
The evolution towards IP-aware access networks creates the possibility (and, indeed, the desirability) of additional network services, like firewalling or NAT, integrated into th...
Tom Verdickt, Wim Van de Meerssche, Koert Vlaeminc...
The integration of different wireless access technologies combined with the huge characteristic diversity of supported services in next-generation wireless systems creates a real h...
AbstractThe impact of the use of mobile devices by means of GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) technology to access environmental information in real time, provided by sensors str...