The increasing growth in complexity of vehicles’ functionalities is driving a technological shift the design software architectures automotive industry. Traditional signal-oriented networking being replaced by service-oriented communications enabled new generation Electronic Control Units (ECUs). growing interest for full-fledged middlewares can be supported these powerful ECUs. However, capabi...

Developers of distributed multimedia applications face a diversity of multimedia formats, streaming platforms and streaming protocols. Furthermore, support for endto-end Quality-of-Service (QoS) is a crucial factor for the development of future distributed multimedia systems. This paper discusses the architecture, design and implementation of a QoS-aware middleware platform for content delivery...

This paper proposes a basic middleware service intended to be used as a generic background dissemination service for distributed self-organizing applications and protocol services in mobile ad-hoc networks. The basic idea is the combination of a device discovery service needed in ad-hoc networks and a dissemination service based on epidemic message distribution. This service is intended to be u...

An increasing number of web-based Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) applications are being developed by researchers, ranging from monitoring the environment to supplementing other network infrastructure located or installed in harsh environments like wireless sensor networks. These applications need to communicate with the DTN daemon to facilitate data transmission. Hence, it is necessary to provide...

Purpose The Reflective Middleware for Acoustic Management (ReM-AM), based on the Cloud Learning Environments (AmICL), aims to improve interaction between users and agents in a Smart Environment (SE) using acoustic services, order consider unpredictable situations due sounds vibrations. middleware allows observing, analyzing, modifying interacting every state of SE from acoustics. This work deta...

This paper proposes a middleware for home networks, called Virtual Networked Appliance (VNA) architecture, in which the service description method and the Service to Service (S2S) communication mechanism are separated in an orthogonal way. Through the separation, VNA architecture solved the following two problems of existing middleware technologies: aspect violation and middleware fragmentation...

Providing quality of service(QoS) guarantees for power vs. performance tradeoffs in distributed middleware frameworks is a crucial research challenge. Future middleware frameworks need to address the issue of providing acceptable performance guarantees in the presence of low-power mobile devices. Most current energy optimization schemes (e.g. DVS) target individual processing elements(nodes) an...

This paper presents a Sensing-as-a-Service run-time Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), called 3SOA, for the development of Internet Things (IoT) applications. 3SOA aims to allow interoperability among various IoT platforms and support service-oriented modelling at high levels abstraction where fundamental SOA theories techniques are fully integrated into practical software engineering approac...