Due to hidden terminals and a dynamic topology, contention among stations in an ad-hoc network is not homogeneous. Some stations are at a disadvantage in opportunity of access to ...
The many-to-one multihop traffic pattern of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) puts a great challenge on enhancing the event-to-sink data delivery throughput. Because, in CSMA/CA dri...
Despite the increasing maturity of contemporary Workflow Management Systems (WfMS), there still exist numerous process-aware application systems with more or less hard-coded proce...
A critical resource in a distributed real-time system is its shared communication medium. Unrestrained concurrent access to the network can lead to collisions that reduce the syst...
Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for lightweight enterprise integration. They cross organizational boundaries, are provided by entities that see each other ...