Rapid growth of the demand for computational power by scientific, business and web-applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers consuming enormous amounts of el...
A situation-aware middleware provides standardized communication protocols to interoperate an application with others under dynamically changing situations. Since the application n...
Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...
Network applications require a certain level of network performance for their proper operation. These individual guarantees can be provided if su cient amounts of network resource...
As mobile ad hoc networks provide a wide range of possibly critical services, providing quality of service guarantees becomes an essential element. Yet there is a limited understa...