Long-running applications such as network services require continuous uptime but also frequent changes to the software. To avoid downtime for software maintenance, applications mu...
—This paper studies the performance of contention based medium access control (MAC) protocols. In particular, a simple and accurate technique for estimating the throughput of the...
The Context sensitive Indoor Navigation System (CoINS) implements an architecture to develop context-aware indoor user guidance services and applications. This paper presents a de...
The fault tolerance provided by FT-CORBA is basically static, that is, once the fault tolerance properties of a group of replicated processes defined, they cannot be modified in r...
The design of complex systems, e.g., telecom services, is nowadays usually based on the integration of components (COTS), loosely coupled in distributed architectures. When compon...