There has usually been a clean separation between networks and the applications that use them. Applications send packets over a simple socket API; the network delivers them. Howev...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Te-Yuan Huang, Ben Dodson, Monica S...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
While it has been argued that application-layer overlay protocols can enhance services in mobile ad-hoc networks, hardly any empirical data is available on the throughput and dela...
Constraint programming can definitely be seen as a model-driven paradigm. The users write programs for modeling problems. These programs are mapped to executable models to calcula...
Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...