User adaptive systems in the context of pervasive computing can only unveil their power if based on a generic middleware managing private data and context information in combinati...
Due to the shared medium nature of wireless networks, the uncertainties caused by collisions and interferences make the Quality of Service (QoS) issue harder than its wired counte...
Today mobile computing is pervasively taking over the traditional desktop computing. Mobile devices are characterized by abrupt and unannounced changes in execution context. The ap...
Uzair Ahmad, S. Y. Lee, Mahrin Iqbal, Uzma Nasir, ...
Enterprise distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems manage resources and data that are vital to users. Cloud computing—where computing resourc...
Joe Hoffert, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha S. Gokh...
Supporting uninterrupted services for distributed soft real-time applications is hard in resource-constrained and dynamic environments, where processor or process failures and sys...