Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...
Data consistency protocols are vital ingredients of mobile data management systems. Notable research efforts have been spent to find adequate consistency models for allowing mobi...
Proliferation of communication-intensive real-time applications with elastic" timeliness constraints, such as streaming stored video, requires a new design for endhost commun...
In secure group communications, a key server can deliver a "grouporiented" rekey message [22] to a large number of users efficiently using multicast. For reliable delive...
Although technology for communication has evolved tremendously over the past decades, mobility impaired individuals still face many difficulties interacting with communication serv...
Carlos Galinho Pires, Fernando Miguel Pinto, Eduar...