Understanding and managing the response time of web services is of key importance as dependence on the World Wide Web continues to grow. We present Remote Latency-based Management...
This paper describes the design and implementation of SWORD, a scalable resource discovery service for widearea distributed systems. In contrast to previous systems, SWORD allows ...
David L. Oppenheimer, Jeannie R. Albrecht, David A...
There is an emerging market interest in service provisioning over dense Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), i.e., limited spatial regions, such as shopping malls, airports, and unive...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Eugenio Magistr...
An analytical model is proposed to describe the priority schemes of the EDCA mechanism of the IEEE 802.11e standard. EDCA provides class-based differentiated QoS to IEEE 802.11 WL...
Abstract. In this paper we motivate an Architecture Description Language (ADL) for mobile distributed systems based on the π-calculus. Different from other approaches, the non-fu...