There is increasing demand to extend object-oriented middleware, such as OMG CORBA, to support applications with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, conventi...
Video streaming has already been very popular on the Internet through services such as news bulletins from different parts of the world and on-demand music-video clips. With rapid...
In this paper we provide a detailed and comprehensive survey of proposed approaches for network design, charting the evolution of models and techniques for the automatic planning ...
Abstract--Reliability and/or availability are increasingly important aspects in the design of systems, especially networks and service offerings. Optimization here is a multi-crite...
- Location systems based on already-deployed cellular networks spend the resources of the underlying communications network. This paper proposes a middleware that reduces the consu...