Pervasive systems require context awareness in order to be able to provide “anywhere, anytime” computing to mobile users. One type of context information is location informati...
Digital storage demand is growing with the increasing use of digital artifacts from media files to business documents. Regulatory frameworks ask for unaltered, durable storage of...
Claudius Stern, Philipp Adelt, Volker Krummel, Mar...
Ad hoc networks provide a dynamically reconfigurable network infrastructure where entities can participate at will. Jini technology can be used to implement an ad hoc network, and...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been increasingly available for critical applications such as security surveillance and environmental monitoring. An important performance mea...
Datagram services provide a simple,
exible, robust, and communication abstraction; their usefulness has been well demonstrated by the success of IP, UDP, and RPC. Yet, the overwh...