We consider soft real-time applications organised as pipelines of tasks using resources of different type (communication, computation, storage). The applications are assumed to be...
With the lack of admission control and resource reservation mechanisms in the Internet, overload situations can only be avoided by having the end systems deploying congestion cont...
Narnia is middleware that helps programmers build multimedia communication services. This middleware ollection of familiar programming abstractions— including events, event hand...
Abstract. QoS-aware distributed applications such as certain Multimedia and Ubiquitous Computing applications can benefit greatly from the provision of QoS guarantees from the unde...
While extensive studies have been carried out in the past several years for many sensor applications, they cannot be applied to the network with extremely low and intermittent con...