The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been used widely for Voice over IP (VoIP) service because of its potential advantages, economical efficiency and call setup simplicity. Ho...
Many stateful services use the replicated state machine approach for high availability. In this approach, a service runs on multiple machines to survive machine failures. This pap...
Jacob R. Lorch, Atul Adya, William J. Bolosky, Ron...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
Given a sufficiently good network connection, even a handheld computer can run extremely resource-intensive applications by executing the demanding portions on a remote server. At...
Abstract. The demand for humanoid robots as service robots for everyday life has increased during the last years. The processing power of the hardware and the development of comple...