Modeling self-adaptive applications is a difficult task due to the complex relationships they have with their environments. Designers of such applications strive to model accurate...
The proliferation of heterogeneous devices and diverse networking technologies demands flexible models to guarantee the quality-of-service(QoS) at the application session level, ...
This paper presents a framework for the pervasive sharing of data using wireless networks. ‘FarCry’ uses the mobility of users to carry files between separated networks. Throu...
Paul Tennent, Malcolm Hall, Barry Brown, Matthew C...
Authenticating mobile computing users can require a significant amount of processing and communications resources— particularly when protocols based on public key encryption are...
Update anywhere-anytime-anyway transactional replication has unstable behavior as the workload scales up. To reduce this problem, a two-tier replication algorithm is proposed in [...