Programmers of large-scale trusted systems need tools to simplify tasks such as replicating services or data. Group communication systems achieve this via various flavors of relia...
A virtual machine is a software replica of an underlying real machine. Multiple virtual machines can operate on the same host machine concurrently, without interfere each other. S...
- The UPnP(Universal Plug and Play) architecture offers pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of intelligent appliances in dynamic distributed computing environment. This pap...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...
Although Instant Messaging (IM) services are now relatively long-standing and very popular as an instant way of communication over the Internet, they have received little attention...