In large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming applications, a fundamental challenge is to quickly locate new supplying peers whenever a VCR command is issued, ...
Xuanjia Qiu, Wei Huang, Chuan Wu, Francis C. M. La...
This paper describes two self-optimisation techniques that have been employed in the design of two exemplar agent-based mobile computing systems, namely Gullivers Genie and the Ag...
Rem W. Collier, Michael J. O'Grady, Gregory M. P. ...
Building distributed systems is an inherently difficult and complex task. Modern middleware architectures assist developers ding abstractions that hide transport layer functionali...
—In mobile environment, it is very common that mobile devices periodically stay in disconnection mode. In a networked world as today, computer users rely on network services so h...
The proliferation of affordable mobile devices with processing and sensing capabilities, together with the rapid growth in ubiquitous network connectivity, herald an era of Mobisc...