The usage of mobile devices like cell phones, navigation systems, or laptop computers, is limited by the lifetime of the included batteries. This lifetime depends naturally on the...
Lucia Cloth, Marijn R. Jongerden, Boudewijn R. Hav...
Abstract—The pervasive computing vision consists in realizing ubiquitous technologies to support the execution of people’s everyday tasks by proactively providing appropriate i...
— For an application in public-resource computing environments, providing reliable scheduling based on resource reliability evaluation is becoming increasingly important. Most ex...
— This paper presents a computing model for resource-limited mobile devices that might be ubiquitously deployed in private and business environments. The model integrates a stron...
Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations is publicly avai...