The early peer-to-peer applications eschewed commercial arrangements and instead established a grass-roots model in which the collection of end-users provided their own distribute...
Abstract. In wireless data broadcast systems, popular information is repetitively disseminated through possibly multiple communication channels to mobile clients using various type...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are difficult to program and usually run statically-installed software limiting its flexibility. To address this, we developed Agilla, a new midd...
Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of distributed service infrastructures such as mobile ad hoc networks, P2P, PlanetLab and Grids. In such distributed inf...
Policy-based management (PBM) aims to provide flexibility in the management of resources so as to readily reflect changing business goals. However, as organizations increasingly u...