ÐReal-time middleware services must guarantee predictable performance under specified load and failure conditions, and ensure graceful degradation when these conditions are violat...
Abstract. This text describes how persistent object system technology developed in European basic research is being used by a small German startup software company to realize innov...
Andreas Gawecki, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmi...
—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
Online social networks often involve very large numbers of users who share very large volumes of content. This content is increasingly being tagged with geo-spatial and temporal c...
Dario Freni, Carmen Ruiz Vicente, Sergio Mascetti,...
Abstract--The continuously increasing complexity of communication networks and the increasing diversity and unpredictability of traffic demand has led to a consensus view that the ...