This paper presents an innovative hierarchical feedback adaptation method that efficiently controls the dynamic QoS behavior of real-time distributed data-flow applications, such ...
We deal with temporal aspects of distributed systems, introducing and studying a new model called timed distributed -calculus. This model extends distributed -calculus with timers...
: We analyze D/G/1 and M/G/1 queues where the service time for an arrival depends on the amount of work in the system upon arrival. The models are motivated by the bit dropping met...
People increasingly generate content on their mobile devices and upload it to third-party services such as Facebook and Google Latitude for sharing and backup purposes. Although t...
Access control has been studied for sometime, and there are a number of theories and techniques for handling access control for single or centralised systems; however, unique and ...
Daisy Daiqin He, Michael Compton, Kerry Taylor, Ji...