Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been widely adopted for Instant Messaging (IM) and VoIP telephony both by the enterprise and in service provider systems. Till now, SIP f...
Arup Acharya, Stefan Berger, Chandrasekhar Narayan...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Time synchronization is a crucial component of a large class of sensor network applications, traditionally implemented as a standalone middleware service that provides a virtual gl...
A content delivery cloud, such as MetaCDN1 , is an integrated overlay that utilizes cloud computing to provide content delivery services to Internet end-users. While it ensures sat...
Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg, Rajkumar B...