Although many QoS management architectures have been recently introduced with a lot of advanced features, they have never been widely used in the existing applications due to the ...
—Superpeer architectures exploit the heterogeneity of nodes in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network by assigning additional responsibilities to higher capacity nodes. In the design of a ...
Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epema, Maarten van Stee...
—In IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems, techniques such as acknowledgement, retransmission, and transmission rate adaptation, are frame-level mechanisms designed for combati...
Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Seungjoon Lee, Bishwaranjan Bh...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...