—While the polling or request/response paradigm adopted by many network and systems management approaches form the backbone of modern monitoring and management systems, the most ...
Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and sys...
In this paper we describe SpartanRPC, a secure middleware technology for wireless sensor network (WSN) applications supporting cooperation between distinct protection domains. The ...
Near-ubiquitous smart phones are the most promising heralds of future pervasive computing. However, despite their increasing capabilities in computation, communication, and sensin...
A key challenge for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) middleware is maintaining both system reliability and desired real-time performance in unpredictable environments wher...