Current technologies aimed at supporting processes – whether it is a business process or a learning process – are usually based on using a dedicated set of metadata to describ...
In this paper, we propose a dynamic QoS, D-QoS, model which allows the QoS requirements be reconfigured dynamically. A privilege user can request a network interruption to guarant...
In typical single-link 802.11 ad-hoc networks, devices often move from one network to the next, forming transitory associations without a fixed support infrastructure. The state i...
With the emergence of grid computing environment, performance measurement, analysis and prediction of non-dedicated distributed systems have become increasingly important. In this...
The primary-backup replication model is one of the commonly adopted approaches to providing fault tolerant data services. Its extension to the real-time environment, however, impo...