This paper describes an agent-based architecture that extends personal mobility to ubiquitous environment. A software agent, running on a portable device, leverages the existing se...
Multimedia applications using broadband networking technologies (for example, Asynchronous Transfer Mode) often require services not provided by standard transport layer middlewar...
Zhenjun Zhu, Gerald A. Winters, Patrick Martin, Hu...
In nowadays wireless networks, mobile users frequently access Internet services that are often based on information concerning the application context and service status. In prese...
The ability to discover services is the major prerequisite for effective usability of MANETs. Group-based Service Discovery (GSD) protocol is a typical service discovery protocol ...
—In distributed computing systems (DCSs) where server nodes can fail permanently with nonzero probability, the system performance can be assessed by means of the service reliabil...