This paper describes a sensor-based middleware for performance monitoring and data integration in the Grid that is capable of self-management. The middleware unifies both system ...
The demand for real-time data services in embedded systems is increasing. In these new computing platforms, using traditional buffer management schemes, whose goal is to minimize ...
A staggering number of multimedia applications are being introduced every day. Yet, the inordinate delays encountered in retrieving multimedia documents make it difficult to use t...
The viability of implementing an in-memory database, Erlang ETS, using a relatively-new data structure, called a Judy array, was studied by comparing the performance of ETS tables...
Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...