In heterogeneous and dynamic distributed systems like the Grid, detailed monitoring of workload and its resulting system performance (e.g. response time) is required to facilitate...
Rui Zhang, Steve Moyle, Steve McKeever, Stephen He...
DIET (Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox) is a set of hierarchical components to design Network Enabled Server (NES) systems. In these systems, clients ask to agents (dis...
Cluster based server architectures have been widely used as a solution to overloading in web servers because of their cost effectiveness, scalability and reliability. A content aw...
Li Zhao, Yan Luo, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Ravishankar R. ...
Smart antennas are expected to enhance scalability in ad hoc networks. This paper at first evaluates three directional MAC protocols, DMAC, MMAC and SWAMP as well as the omni-dir...
We present a novel Delay-Energy Aware Routing Protocol (DEAP) for for heterogeneous sensor and actor networks. DEAP enable a wide range of tradoffs between delay and energy consum...