The vision of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing promises that our future environments will be furnished with an increasing number of computationally augmented artifacts. Conseque...
—In this paper we study the performance of the Ambient Networks (AN) access selection architecture. We consider heterogeneous wireless networks, where mobile terminals (MTs) own ...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
In order to provide a generic, applicationindependent and resource-efficient framework for server redundancy and session failover, the IETF RSerPool WG is currently standardizing ...
Object based storage devices (OSDs) elevate the level of abstraction presented to clients, thereby permitting them to offer methods for managing, sharing, and securing information...