In this paper we show that application-aware adaptation, a collaborative partnership between the operating system and applications, offers the most general and effective approach ...
Brian Noble, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dushyanth Nar...
Contemporary vehicles offer an advanced telematics platform with multiple applications available such as electronic road tolling, emergency call, breakdown call, or route planning....
Jef Maerien, Sam Michiels, Stefan Van Baelen, Chri...
Optimisation of IEEE 802.11e MAC protocol performance can be performed by modifying several parameters left open in the standard, like buffer size and acknowledgement policies. In ...
Orlando Cabral, Alberto Segarra, Fernando J. Velez
Near field communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless protocol that allows users to connect devices and access content and services by simply holding enabled devices near each ...
Yaw Anokwa, Gaetano Borriello, Trevor Pering, Roy ...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...