By nature, ubiquitous computing applications are intimately intertwined with users' everyday life. This situation is challenging because it requires to make the development of...
Most application level fault tolerance schemes in literature are non-adaptive in the sense that the fault tolerance schemes incorporated in applications are usually designed witho...
Zizhong Chen, Ming Yang, Guillermo A. Francia III,...
Energy efficiency is increasingly important for future information and communication technologies (ICT), because the increased usage of ICT, together with increasing energy costs a...
Andreas Berl, Erol Gelenbe, Marco Di Girolamo, Gio...
Large-scale Internet applications can benefit from an ability to predict round-trip times to other hosts without having to contact them first. Explicit measurements are often un...
Frank Dabek, Russ Cox, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert M...
There is a growing need for techniques that provide alternative means to access Web content and services, be it the ability to browse the Web through a voice interface like the Ph...