—The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popul...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Michael Pierre Carlson, Quan Z. Sh...
The complexity of developing and deploying context-aware pervasive-computing applications calls for distributed software infrastructures that assist applications to collect, aggre...
—In multiservice networks, admission control (AC) is a convenient means of assuring high quality communications by safeguarding enough availability for customer traffic. This ca...
With the growth in the computation capacity of sensor nodes, they are increasingly equipped to handle more complex functions. Moreover, the need to realize the complete loop of se...
Distributed event-based middleware (DEBM) provides a basis for the interoperation of autonomous components in large-scale systems. Transactions ensure the atomic and reliable exec...