Ubicomp applications are characterized as situationaware, frequently-and-ephemerally-communicated and QoS-properties-associated. Using middleware to provide multiple QoS support f...
Stephen S. Yau, Yu Wang, Dazhi Huang, Hoh Peter In
With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices, computing is being carried out on devices with varied resource constraints and is afflicted by constant changes in run-time conte...
Nalini Moti Belaramani, Cho-Li Wang, Francis C. M....
Recently, the scheme of parallel downloading (PD) has been adopted by a number of Internet file downloading applications. With the wide deployment of content distribution network...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...
Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...