Simulating distributed database systems is inherently difficult, as there are many factors that may influence the results. This includesarchitectural options as well as workload...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is widely used as a call control protocol for Voice over IP (VoIP), and indeed commercial implementations are readily available off-the-shel...
We introduce a framework, called "physicomimetics," that provides distributed control of large collections of mobile physical agents in sensor networks. The agents sense...
William M. Spears, Diana F. Spears, Jerry C. Haman...
This paper presents a biologically inspired approach to two basic problems in modular self-reconfigurable robots: adaptive communication in self-reconfigurable and dynamic networks...
This contribution discusses a network-level access control technique that applies the non-discretionary access control model to individual data packets that are exchanged between ...