This paper reports our experience with representing and reasoning with context information within the CARE middleware. CARE was developed to support context-aware service adaptati...
Service availability is of key importance to operations and maintenance systems for mobile telephony networks. This paper will describe some of the challenges in providing continu...
When designing distributed web services, there are three properties that are commonly desired: consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. It is impossible to achieve all ...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...
This paper presents a new method named “Life cycle model” for optimal placement of Distributed Generators in a distribution network. The impact of DG at the distribution level...