Abstract. The decoupling between behavior and communication fostered by coordination becomes of paramount importance in mobile computing. In this scenario, however, coordination te...
Queueing models are routinely used to analyze the performance of software systems. However, contrary to common assumptions, the time that a software server takes to complete jobs ...
—Virtual coordinate systems provide an accurate and efficient service that allows hosts on the Internet to determine latency to arbitrary hosts based on information provided by ...
Sheila Becker, Jeff Seibert, David Zage, Cristina ...
Situated computing concerns the ability of computing devices to detect, interpret and respond to aspects of the user’s local environment. In this paper, we use our recent protot...
Richard Hull 0002, Philip Neaves, James Bedford-Ro...
—With a widespread increase in the number of mobile wireless systems and applications, the need for location aware services has risen at a very high pace in the last few years. M...