Abstract-- Failures of any type are common in current datacenters. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while different availability levels per application or ...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Opportunistic augmentation denotes connecting a personal mobile device to another device to gain a transient advantage for the user. For example, a mobile phone user might borrow ...
John J. Barton, Stina Nylander, Fopefolu Folowosel...
Smart Messages (SMs) are dynamic collections of code and data that migrate to nodes of interest in the network and execute on these nodes. A key challenge in programming pervasive...
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...
The handoff algorithms in the current generation of 802.11 networks are primarily reactive in nature, because they wait until the link quality degrades substantially to trigger a ...