Dynamic QoS adaptation for mobile middleware

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 738-752

  Chuang, Siu Nam ^a   Chan, Alvin T S ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set; Middleware; Mobile applications; Mobile computing support services; Mobile environments; QoS

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; APPLICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL THEORY; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLEWARE; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ADAPTIVE COMPUTING; APPLICATION SPECIFICS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; EXPONENTIAL INCREASES; FUZZY CONTROL MODELS; FUZZY SET; HIERARCHICAL FUZZY CONTROLS; HIERARCHICAL FUZZY SYSTEMS; LINGUISTIC VARIABLES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS; MOBILE MIDDLEWARES; OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS; OVERALL MODELS; PROCESSING POWERS; QOS; QOS ADAPTATIONS; QOS MANAGEMENTS; QOS PARAMETERS;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 58049201983     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2008.44     Document Type: Article

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