This work describes a generic database service for the lightweight Venice Service Grid, which has been developed at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. By using Web service...
Moving object databases store and process data for objects that change location frequently. Materialized views maintained over time must be updated to reflect changes due to the m...
Abstract-- This paper investigates the near-memoryless behavior of the service time for IEEE 802.11 saturated single-hop ad hoc networks. We show that the number of packets success...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
In this paper we discuss the performance of a document distribution model that interconnects Web caches through a satellite channel. During recent years Web caching has emerged as...