Abstract. Fine-grained lock protocols with lock modes and lock granules adjusted to the various XML processing models, allow for highly concurrent transaction processing on XML tre...
Existing work in the skyline literature focuses on optimizing the processing cost. This paper aims at minimization of the communication overhead in client-server architectures, wh...
AdvanceobjectorientedcomputingplatformsuchastheCommonObjectRequestBrokerArchitecture (CORBA) provides a conducive and standardized framework for the development of distributed appl...
Hung Keng Pung, Wynne Hsu, Bhawani S. Sapkota, Law...
—Recent years have witnessed the deployments of wireless sensor networks in a class of mission-critical applications such as object detection and tracking. These applications oft...
—Supporting a multimode mobile device to seamlessly switch its connections between various wireless access networks, such as WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and LTE, is an important research issue...