A combined control of multimedia quality level, mobility and allocation of network resources is essential for the success of next generation mobile networks. In this context, this ...
Eduardo Cerqueira, Luis Veloso, Augusto Neto, Mari...
We present a brokering service for the adaptive management of composite services. The goal of this broker is to dynamically adapt at runtime the composite service configuration, ...
Abstract—In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), detecting smallscale primary devices—such as wireless microphones (WMs)— is a challenging, but very important, problem that has n...
Abstract--Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in ...
Xuedong Liang, Ilangko Balasingham, Victor C. M. L...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...