Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
Camera phones have been viewed simplistically as digital cameras with poor picture quality while neglecting the utility of the two key functionalities of mobile phones: network co...
The emergence of portable computers and wireless technologies has introduced new challenges for middleware. Mobility brings new requirements and is becoming a key characteristic. M...
To enable the end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees in the Internet, based on the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), inter-domain QoS advertising and routing are important. H...
The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...