Abstract. Features provide extensions to a basic service, but in new systems users require much greater flexibility oriented towards their needs. Traditional features do not easil...
Dealing with interference is one of the primary challenges to solve in the design of protocols for wireless ad-hoc networks. Most of the work in the literature assumes localized o...
Performance analysis tools are critical for the effective use of large parallel computing resources, but existing tools have failed to address three problems that limit their scal...
In Internet-scale distributed systems, replicationbased scheme has been widely deployed to increase the availability and efficiency of services. Hence, consistency maintenance amo...
As agent technologies are increasingly being involved in telecommunication-related applications, the need for open standards is becoming critical. During the past years, different ...