There have been research initiatives in centralized control recently, which advocate that the control of an autonomous system (AS) should be performed in a centralized fashion. In ...
An energy aware routing protocol (EARP) is proposed to minimise a performance metric that combines the total consumed power in the network and the QoS that is specified for the ...
The increasing number of independent IEEE 802.11 WLANs owned and managed by autonomous users has led to increased interference, resulting in performance degradation and unfairness...
The terms pervasive and ubiquitous computing are used to describe a smart space populated by hundreds of intelligent devices that are embedded in their surroundings. Characteristi...
Ubiquitous computing and communication environments connect systems and people in unprecedented ways, but also fundamentally challenge the mindset of traditional systems engineeri...