— In sensor networks, MAC protocols based on Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) with wakeup and sleep periods have attracted considerable interest because of their low power co...
The increasing popularity of heterogeneous Webenabled devices and wired/wireless connections motivates the diffusion of content adaptation services that enrich the traditional Web...
A self-organized approach to manage a distributed proxy system called Adaptive Distributed Caching (ADC) has been proposed previously. We model each proxy as an autonomous agent th...
--This paper presents a novel approach to evaluate the response time in networked automation systems (NAS) that use a client/server protocol. The developments introduced are derive...
Policy enforcement is an integral part of many applications. Policies are often used to control access to sensitive information. Current policy specification languages give users ...