Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are attracting great interest in a number of application
domains concerned with monitoring and control of physical phenomena, as they enable …

Mobile applications are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and provide ever richer
functionality on mobile devices. At the same time, such devices often enjoy strong …

As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an
increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across these …

Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) attract a great deal of research attention, and
are envisioned to support a variety of applications, including military surveillance, habitat …

As the number of computing devices embedded into engineered systems continues to rise,
there is a widening gap between the needs of the user to control aggregates of devices and …

Mobile cloud computing applications run diverse workloads under diverse device platforms,
networks, and clouds. Traditionally these applications are statically partitioned between …

The ability to partition sensor network application code across sensor nodes and backend
servers is important for running complex, data-intensive applications on sensor platforms …

Severely resource-constrained devices present a confounding challenge to the functional
programmer: we are used to having powerful abstraction facilities at our fingertips, but how …

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Beehive, a distributed control
platform with a simple programming model. In Beehive, control applications are centralized …

An upcoming frontier for distributed computing might literally save lives in future military
operations. In civilian scenarios, significant efficiencies were gained from interconnecting …