136 views145 votes15 years 5 months ago CORR 2010»
Current middleware systems suffer from drawbacks. Often one is forced to make decisions early in the design process about which classes may participate in inter-machine communicat...
135 views149 votes15 years 6 months ago MMNS 2003»
Wireless communications and device miniaturization are enabling pervasive scenarios where the limited resource availability and the wide heterogeneity of access terminals make cruc...
126 views164 votes15 years 11 months ago PERCOM 2007»
The CARE middleware aims at supporting contextaware adaptation of Internet services in a mobile computing environment. The CARE hybrid reasoning mechanism is based on a loose inte...
158 views168 votes15 years 10 months ago PPOPP 2003»
Sensor networks are long-running computer systems with many sensing/compute nodes working to gather information about their environment, process and fuse that information, and in ...
—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are challenging types of networks where resources can be scarce. In particular, battery is often a very limited resource and the radio interface is...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Timeliness in conventional real-time systems is addressed by employing well-known scheduling techniques that guarantee the execution of a number of tasks within certain deadlines. ...
100 views138 votes16 years 5 months ago PERCOM 2004»
A framework for the dynamic aggregation of ubiquitous computers is presented. The framework aggregates applications from more than one mobile component that can migrate from compu...
185 views142 votes15 years 10 months ago HPDC 2000»
The first decades of the new millennium will witness an explosive growth in the number and diversity of networked devices and portals. We foresee high degrees of mobility, hetero...