A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Femto cells are a cost-effective means of providing ubiquitous connectivity in future broadband wireless networks. While their primary purpose has been to improve coverage in curr...
Boosted by technology advancements, government and commercial interest, ad-hoc wireless networks are emerging as a serious platform for distributed mission-critical applications. G...
Abstract Mobile computing systems should be selfmanaged to simplify operation and maintenance plus meet user's expectation with respect to Quality of Service (QoS). When archi...
Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is ...