The roots of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are tracked back to US military
developments, and, currently, WSNs have paved their way into a vast domain of civil …

One of the main challenges in the design of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks is to
reduce energy consumption and radio interference and collision, which are strictly and …

Countless novel approaches to communication protocols, overlay networks, and distributed
middleware are published every year, yet the adoption of such novel findings in the global …

Today's adaptive software systems (i) are often highly configurable product lines, exhibiting
hundreds of potentially conflicting configuration options;(ii) are context dependent, forcing …

Limiting the knowledge of individual nodes is a major concern for the design of distributed
algorithms. With the LOCAL model, theoretical research already established a common …

This paper presents the spectral gap-based topology control algorithm (SGTC) for wireless
backhaul networks, a novel approach that employs the Laplacian Spectral Gap (LSG) to find …

The conceptual design phase is a crucial phase for the system architects to evaluate
physical architecture concepts. Our research area deals with the model-based system …

This book reports on a novel concept of mechanism transitions for the design of highly
scalable and adaptive publish/subscribe systems. First, it introduces relevant mechanisms …

Enhancing the scalability and utilization of data centers, virtualization is a promising
technology to manage, develop and operate network functions in a Ćexible way. For the …

Designing and reasoning about complex systems such as wireless sensor networks is hard
due to highly dynamic environments: sensors are heterogeneous, battery-powered, and …