5G networks will be the first real converged net-works supporting a plethora of different
services, each with their own requirements. A static best-effort approach is no longer …

Smart cities are an actual trend being pursued by research that, fundamentally, tries to
improve city's management on behalf of a better human quality of live. This paper proposes …

Ubiquitous computing systems depend on a distributed intelligence that relates the context
of the task being performed to the available system resources and services. Currently, this is …

Network area has seen tremendous changes during the last decade through several waves.
The first wave has been the Internet, which has completely changed the way network …

Computer networks are infrastructures largely used by our society supporting a broad range
of applications. In effect, computer networks are diverse in terms of their scale, complexity …

The virtualization concept along with its underlying technologies has been warmly adopted
in many fields of computer science. In this direction, network virtualization research has …

Les applications logicielles, maintenant distribuées et mobiles, requièrent de nouvelles
fonctionnalités pour supporter l'adaptation à différents contextes d'utilisation pour lesquels …

The current Internet, while successful in many aspects, has a set of associated architectural
and business problems that threaten its stability and inhibit new advances, such as …

Autonomic network management is viewed as the capability of network entities to self-
government, which frees IT professionals from time-consuming and tedious configuration …

As the number of context-aware applications increases in the real world, it can be quite
difficult to deploy such applications in traditional application servers, which are context …