The specification and management of Quality of Service (QoS) is important in networks and distributed computing systems, particularly to support multimedia applications. The advent of portable lap-top computers, palmtops and Personal Digital Assistants with integrated communication capabilities facilitates mobile computing. This paper is a survey of QoS concepts and techniques for mobile distri...

The continuing growth and success of many edge technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables and Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) relies on providing a highperformance and low-latency computing infrastructure. In this paper, we envision extending edge computing with mobile, moving, and possibly flying edge datacenters, that we call nomadic datacenters to improve the performa...

Future access to web-based content is likely to be dominated by two trends: (a) increasing amounts of dynamic, personalized content, and (b) a significant growth in “on-the-move” access using various mobile resourceconstrained devices. These trends point to a situation where a user would have ubiquitous access to content, but require that content be efficiently delivered to the user irrespectiv...

Previously, we developed a population model incorporating the Allee effect and periodic environmental fluctuations, in which organisms alternate between nomadic and colonial behaviours. This switching strategy is regulated by biological clocks and the abundance of environmental resources, and can lead to population persistence despite both behaviours being individually losing. In the present st...

The current paper attempts to examine and comprehend the reasons for low literacy level, higher dropout rate lack of proper education among Nomadic tribes Jammu Kashmir. This discusses scenario educational level community as well role government institutions their programmes. Many programs did not benefit tribal because programmes were contextualized localized considering regional, geographical...

Kuwaiti native population comprises three distinct genetic subgroups of Persian, "city-dwelling" Saudi Arabian tribe, and nomadic "tent-dwelling" Bedouin ancestry. Bedouin subgroup is characterized by presence of 17% African ancestry; it owes it origin to nomadic tribes of the deserts of Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. By sequencing whole genome of a Kuwaiti male from this subgroup at 41X c...

In this paper, we present several challenges and innovative approaches to support nomadic computing. The nomadic computing environment is characterized by mobile users that may be connected to the network via wired or wireless means, many of whom will maintain only intermittent connectivity with the network. Furthermore, those accessing the network via wireless links will contend with limitatio...

Network and device heterogeneity, nomadic mobility, intermittent connectivity and, more generally, extremely dynamic operating conditions, are major challenges in the design of security infrastructures for pervasive computing. Yet, in a ubiquitous computing environment, limitations of traditional solutions for authentication and authorization can be overcome with a pervasive public key infrastr...

Work process support systems, both in the form of workflow systems and of more loosely structured systems have been widely developed and also to a large extent been taken into use in a large number of work situations. As computing is becoming both pervasive and nomadic, workers use of computing and communication services is less limited to solitary moments at an office desk. Thus it gets more a...

This essay examines the current state of economic development and environmental degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, focusing primarily on the nomadic area of Zhidou County (Sanjiangyuan region), Yushu Prefecture, Qinghai Province. Current initiatives from the provincial government, though well intentioned, are missing key elements in order to develop the region and maintain the preserva...