Abstract—Increasing demand for high-speed and efficient multimedia transmission over wireless networks has driven tremendous research on enhancing the performance of multimedia ...
An important requirement for the effective scheduling of parallel applications on large heterogeneous clusters is a current view of system resource availability. Maintaining such ...
An advanced communication system, the FlexRay system, has been developed for future automotive applications. It consists of time-triggered clusters, such as drive-by-wire in cars,...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
Authenticating mobile computing users can require a significant amount of processing and communications resources— particularly when protocols based on public key encryption are...