Smartphones are enabling new ways of capture, hence arises the need for seamless and
reliable acquisition and digitization of documents, in order to convert them to editable …

Distributed event routing has emerged as a key technology for achieving scalable
information dissemination. In particular it has been used as preferential communication …

Distributed content-based publish/subscribe systems suffer from performance degradation
and poor scalability caused by uneven load distributions typical in real-world applications …

Publish/subscribe is a mature communication paradigm to route and deliver events from
publishers to interested subscribers. Initially conceived for large scale systems, eg, the …

This document presents an overview of event systems and distributed event frameworks with
an emphasis on the special requirements presented by mobile computing. An event-based …

This paper formalizes transactional properties for publish/subscribe client mobility and
develops protocols to realize them. Evaluations show that compared to traditional protocols …

Middleware is a critical foundation needed to leverage the development of a wide range of
mobile and ubiquitous applications. Intrinsic challenges when building such middleware …

The scalability of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems and distributed hash tables (DHTs)
have been extensively studied in the literature. However, less well-known are properties of …

The basic operation of a Delay Tolerant Sensor Network (DTSN) is to finish pervasive data
gathering in networks with intermittent connectivity, while the publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub for …

Many publish/subscribe systems implement a policy for clients to join to their physically
closest broker to minimize transmission delays incurred on the clients' messages. However …