Abstract--The current framework of network utility maximization for rate allocation and its price-based algorithms assumes that each link provides a fixed-size transmission "p...
— This paper presents the first analytical model for ad hoc networks equipped with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radios using space-time coding (STC) that considers the ...
Context management in pervasive computing environments must reflect the specific characteristics of these environments, e.g. distribution, mobility, resource-constrained devices, o...
Roland Reichle, Michael Wagner, Mohammad Ullah Kha...
Despite numerous frameworks and models proposed in the literature, Information Systems (IS) assessment still remains elusive. Above all, there is little agreement on the contribut...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...