Resource management is a fundamental concept in operating system design. In recent years it has become fashionable to consider the problem as an aspect of heterogeneous support fo...
The recent studies in the distributed simulation area are focused in the High Level Architecture, defined by the DoD/USA, which proposes a standard environment to develop and run ...
In this paper, we present a network service specifically designed for multimedia servers. It uses a histogram based traffic characterization and an overload control protocol to el...
This paper describes a security architecture designed to support role-based access control for distributed object systems in a large-scale, multi-organisational enterprise in whic...
Distributed systems with high availability requirements have to support some form of dynamic reconfiguration. This means that they must provide the ability to be maintained or upg...