Experiences with open overlays: A middleware approach to network heterogeneity

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 123-136

  Grace, Paul ^a   Hughes, Danny ^a   Porter, Barry ^a   Blair, Gordon S ^a   Coulson, Geoff ^a   Taiani, Francois ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Framework; Middleware; Overlay network; WSN

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURABLE; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC RECONFIGURABILITY; FRAMEWORK; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK HETEROGENEITY; NETWORK OVERLAY; NETWORKING COMMUNITY; NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY; PHYSICAL NODES; PLUG-INS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OVERLAY NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 57949099550     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357010.1352606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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