138 views162 votes15 years 6 months ago IADIS 2004»
Nowadays, wearable devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, etc. gain widespread popularity for communication and data exchange. Consequently, several approaches investigate the prob...
195 views198 votes15 years 10 months ago IDMS 2001»
The rise of mobile computing and wireless network technology means that, increasingly, applications must adapt to their environment, in particular network connectivity and resource...
111 views143 votes15 years 10 months ago WMCSA 2002»
Mobile environments are highly dynamic, characterised by frequent and sudden changes in resource availability. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of...
115 views154 votes15 years 11 months ago IPPS 2005»
In this article, we present the AdOC (Adaptive Online Compression) library. It is a user-level set of functions that enables data transmission with compression. The compression is...
139 views159 votes15 years 10 months ago SEM 2004»
The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
Service-oriented computing paradigm encourages the use of dynamic binding of application requirements to the resources needed to fulfill application tasks. Especially in pervasive...
The need for sharing is well known in a large number of distributed applications. These applications are difficult to develop either for fully wired or mobile wireless networks. ...
134 views167 votes15 years 11 months ago JIT 2005»
: Access to Grid services is currently limited to devices having significant computing, network resources etc. such as desktop computers. On the other hand, most of mobile devices ...
The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
188 views159 votes15 years 9 months ago IDMS 1997»
With the evolving availability of wireless communication servicesand of affordable mobile devices such as notebooks or Personal Digital Assistants, mobile computing is becoming wid...