In this paper we investigate the performance of IEEE 802.11b ad hoc networks by means of an experimental study. This analysis reveals several aspects that are usually neglected in...
Giuseppe Anastasi, Eleonora Borgia, Marco Conti, E...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Many mobile applications can be greatly enhanced when provided with the locations of people and devices. Ultrasonic location systems have been shown to supply location information...
The dynamism and heterogeneity in ubicomp environments on both short and long time scales implies that middleware platforms for these environments need to be designed ground up fo...
In this paper, we present an advance reservation scheme for CPU and energy resources, called ReCalendar. The goal is to enable soft real-time applications on mobile devices to ach...