Abstract. As mobility permeates into todays computing and communication arena, we envision application infrastructures that will increasingly rely on mobile technologies. Tradition...
The service-oriented approach is known to be adequate for building distributed applications for mobile ad hoc networks, and a number of successful research works using this approa...
—This paper deals with decentralized, QoS-aware middleware for checkpointing arrangement in Mobile Grid (MoG) computing systems. Checkpointing is more crucial in MoG systems than...
The problem with the Grid is that it does not currently extend completely to devices, because these devices are not viewed as having sufficient capability to be both clients and s...
A common problem facing mobile computing is disconnected operation, or computing in the absence of a network. Hoarding eases disconnected operation by selecting a subset of the us...