Abstract. This paper presents a formal analysis of the device discovery phase of the Bluetooth wireless communication protocol. The performance of this process is the result of a c...
Marie Duflot, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman,...
We focus on an important problem in the space of ubiquitous computing, namely, programming support for the distributed heterogeneous computing elements that make up this environme...
— This paper presents an architecture and algorithms for optimizing the performance of web services. For a given service, session-based admission control is combined with stage-w...
Dynamic power management saves power by shutting down idle devices. Several management algorithms have been proposed and demonstrated effective in certain applications. We quantit...
Diagram manipulation in conventional CAD systems requires frequent mode switching and explicit placement of the pivot for rotation and scaling. In order to simplify this process, ...