A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Abstract— An important issue for supporting multimedia applications in multiple heterogeneous networks, a typical pervasive computing environment, is how to optimize the rate all...
Liang Zhou, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, Baoyu Zheng, ...
—A critical issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is represented by the network throughput. To meet the throughput requirement, researchers propose multi-channel design in 802...
In the past, it was very common to develop middleware without consideration of security from the very beginning. To integrate security, the middleware that should be protected has...