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...
Recently, a moderate amount of work has been reported on the use of overlay networks to support value-added network services, such as multicasting, Quality of Service (QoS), secur...