Despite the popularity of mobile computing platforms, appropriate system support for mobile
operation is lacking in the Internet. The paper argues that this is not for lack of deployment …

The emerging edge services architecture promises to improve the availability and
performance of web services by replicating servers at geographically distributed sites. A key …

A fundamental vision driving pervasive computing research is access to personal and
shared data anywhere at anytime. In many ways, this vision is close to being realized …

The growing importance of telecommunication networks has stimulated research on a new
generation of programming languages. Such languages view the network and its resources …

US7603285B2 - Enterprise scheduling system for scheduling mobile service representatives -
Google Patents US7603285B2 - Enterprise scheduling system for scheduling mobile service …

In this paper, we investigate network-aware mobile programs, programs that can use
mobility as a tool to adapt to variations in network characteristics. We present infrastructural …

Mobile computing is rapidly becoming a way of life. Users carry their laptops, PDAs, an other
portable devices with them almost constantly, whether their mobility takes them across town …

In this paper we show how to extend the functionality of standard operating systems
completely at the user level. Our approach works by intercepting selected system calls at the …

Computer system designers often use caches to solve performance problems. Caching in
the World Wide Web has been both the subject of extensive research and the basis of a …

DFSTrace is a system to collect and analyze long‐term file reference data in a distributed
UNIX workstation environment. The design of DFSTrace is unique in that it pays particular …