This paper describes an architecture that provides support for quality of service (QoS) specification and enforcement in heterogeneous distributed computing systems. The Quartz Qo...
Many real-time applications require a high-resolution time tick in order to work properly. However, supporting a high-resolution time tick imposes a very high overhead on the syst...
Pramote Kuacharoen, Mohamed Shalan, Vincent John M...
Many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are composed of a mixture of deployed devices with varying capabilities, from extremely constrained 8-bit "Motes" to less...
Lewis Girod, Jeremy Elson, Alberto Cerpa, Thanos S...
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability f...
We propose a new compression algorithm that is tailored to database applications. It can be applied to a collection of records, and is especially e ective for records with many lo...