Controlling the sensing of an environment by an agent has been accepted as necessary for effective operation within most practical domains. Usually, however, agents operate in par...
This work describes a detailed simulation-based study of the performance of an IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) layer over an IEEE 802.11g Physical (PHY) layer. The study ...
This paper describes a new approach to programming autonomic systems. Autonomic functions are integrated into element objects at design time using a special language called JSpoon...
This paper studies the performance of a multi-rate mobile ad hoc network (MANET) using an extended ns-2 simulator. A link adaptation algorithm is developed and tested. The multi-r...
Real-time services such as VoIP are becoming popular and are major revenue earners for network service providers. These services are no longer confined to the wired domain and are ...