Active services are application-specified programs that are executed inside the network. The location where the active service is executed plays an important role. The dynamic beha...
In this paper, we explore how to effectively create and use "instant mesh networks", i.e., wireless mesh networks that are dynamically deployed in temporary circumstances...
Bo Xing, Mayur Deshpande, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini ...
The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed...
Data-intensive parallel applications on clouds need to deploy large data sets from the cloud's storage facility to all compute nodes as fast as possible. Many multicast algori...
Tatsuhiro Chiba, Mathijs den Burger, Thilo Kielman...
The early 1980s saw the development of some rather sophisticated distributed systems. These were not merely networked file systems: rather, using remote procedure calls, hierarchi...