This paper presents an approach for exchanging presence information between users of an instant messaging system in a mobile ad hoc network. As major feature, presence information ...
Computational Grids are distributed systems that provide access to computational resources in a transparent fashion. Collecting and providing information about the status of the Gr...
Andrew W. Cooke, Alasdair J. G. Gray, Lisha Ma, We...
The concept of Automatically Switched Transport Networks (ASTN) combines elements of distributed connection management from the IP world with classical transport network functiona...
We expand the scope of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems to include the concept of “communities”. Communities are analogous to interest groups and can overlap. We use communities as ...
In this paper we consider a distributed and efficient information dissemination and retrieval system for wireless sensor networks. In such a system each sensor node operates auton...