Much debate exists whether explicit signalling is eventually required to create a reliable and integrated multi-service Internet. If yes, further disagreement exists, how such sign...
XML is rapidly becoming one of the most widely adopted technologies for information exchange and representation. As the use of XML becomes more widespread, we foresee the developme...
—The use of the Internet for VoIP communications has seen an important increase over the last few years, with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) as the most popular protocol u...
This paper describes an experiment performed on Wide Area Network to assess and fairly compare the Quality of Service provided by a large family of failure detectors. Failure dete...
In this paper we present our approach towards a modularized database management system (DBMS) whose components can be adapted at runtime and show the modularization of a DBMS bene...