In this paper we present a detailed review on the Trader’s Quality of Service (QoS) Specifications and the Effects on System Performance for Video-on-Demand Multimedia (MM) Appl...
Broadcasting is a vital communication mechanism in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, as it is the key element for exchanging control packets to support some services such as management and ...
Dimitrios Liarokapis, Alireza Shahrabi, Andreas Ko...
Although WSRF (Web Services Resource Framework) and Java-based hosting environment have been successful in dealing with the heterogeneity of resources and the diversity of applica...
We present a flexible query allocation framework, called Satisfaction-based Query Allocation (SbQA for short), for distributed information systems where both consumers and provider...
The file is a well-understood and very simple abstraction, which has been successfully used in both centralized and distributed systems. However, files are not expressive enough t...