The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...
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...
Many fault-tolerant group communication middleware systems have been implemented assuming crash failure semantics. While this assumption is not unreasonable, it becomes hard to ju...
Dimane Mpoeleng, Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Neil A. Spe...
Abstract. We address the problem of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for multimedia applications (e.g., distance education, telemedicine, electronic commerce). These applicati...
Gary Molenkamp, Michael Katchabaw, Hanan Lutfiyya,...
Most parallel computing resources are controlled by batch schedulers that place requests for computation in a queue until access to compute nodes is granted. Queue waiting times a...