— Many distributed multiple access (MAC) protocols use an exponential backoff mechanism. In that mechanism, a node picks a random backoff time uniformly in an interval that doubl...
—Today, international mobile roaming (IMR) is experiencing changes both in terms of technology and business models. Traditionally, voice and SMS have been the only services offer...
The IEEE 802.11 based Wireless LANs (WLANs) have emerged as a viable technology for supporting real-time applications such as Voice over IP (VoIP). Even the Personal Digital Assist...
—This paper addresses context issues in pervasive mobile computing and presents a semantic context model to support location based cooperative mobile applications. In this paper,...
Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of ownership in large data centers emphasize the need for database system techniques for both automatic performance tuning and ef...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu,...