Over the last decades, the increase in demand for road transportation has traditionally been matched by an expansion of the road network to prevent or reduce traffic congestion. This approach is unsustainable in the long ...

The construction of distributed applications is a complex and time consuming task, which has been addressed by the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture. However implementations of this ...

Clock syncronization is one of the basic requirements of a distributed real-time systems. The greater the precision achievable by the clock synchronization algorithm used, the harder the real-time guarantees that can be ...

An embedded system is an autonomous information processing system that determines or controls to a large extent the behaviour of a larger system. The proliferation of embedded systems applications is increasing daily, ...

Distributed computing systems are moving towards increasingly autonomous operation and management, in which their interacting components can organise, regulate, repair and optimise themselves without human intervention. ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are composed of small autonomous devices called sensor nodes, used to measure environmental phenomena. These sensor nodes are typically unattended battery-powered devices that typically have ...

Recently, many distributed applications have been based on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) compliant middleware. Such distributed computing middleware provides the components of a distributed application ...

The automotive industry has increasingly adopted computer technology to enhance the safety and efficiency of vehicles. Using sensors and electronic control systems, vehicles can become partially or fully automated, taking ...

As the Internet expands and proliferates it gives rise to new technologies that require supporting Internet protocols. Some recent examples include HTTP, POP, IMAP and IIOP. Internet applications are generally based on ...

Pervasive computing represents a vision of networked computers being distributed throughout our everyday environment in order to transparently provide services to people. The use of sensors enables the deployment of so-called ...