This paper discusses the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system, which is a solution that allows drivers to minimize amount of time spent driving. It supports four different driving modes and regulates acceleration deceleration car in order maintain fixed speed or avoid collision with another vehicle. Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) middleware has emerged as one most efficient practical option...

Multipoint distribution of data is a requirement for various types of applications in such areas as distance learning, multimedia conferencing and group collaboration. The economy of scale of multicast transport for multipoint distribution is not in doubt. The challenge is to develop technologies that will satisfy the varied requirements of these applications. However, IP Multicast has proven d...

During the last decade the publish/subscribe communication paradigm gained a central role in the design and development of a large class of applications ranging from stock exchange systems to news tickers, from air traffic control to defense systems. This success is mainly due to the capacity of publish/subscribe to completely decouple communication participants, thus allowing the development o...

The growing trend towards running publish/subscribe (pub/sub)-based distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems in cloud environments motivates the need to achieve end-to-end quality-of-service (QoS) over wide-area networks (WANs). The OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) is a data-centric middleware that provides fast, scalable and predictable distribution of real-time critical data. The D...

This paper presents a Scenario-Based Adaptive Service Framework, where we can provide more adaptive service scenarios among highly correlated business applications. Individual services are seamlessly integrated into a framework by registering scripts, written in XML infrastructure language, called the XLogic, to the middleware platform, the XCREAM (XLogic Collaborative RFID/USN-enabled Adaptive...

Middleware provides distributed objects with a software infrastructure that offers a set of well-known distribution transparencies. These transparencies enable the rapid introduction of applications for heterogeneous, distributed systems. However, to support guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) system-specific QoS mechanisms need to be controlled. Accessing the low-level mechanisms directly by a...

Major challenges are presented when managing a large number of heterogeneous vehicles that have to communicate underwater in order to complete a global mission in a cooperative manner. In this kind of application domain, sending data through the environment presents issues that surpass the ones found in other overwater, distributed, cyber-physical systems (i.e., low bandwidth, unreliable transp...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology is one of the important technologies to implement the ubiquitous society, and it could increase productivity of agricultural and livestock products, and secure transparency of distribution channels if such a WSN technology were successfully applied to the agricultural sector. Middleware, which can connect WSN hardware, applications, and enterprise system...

Due to stringent constraints in memory footprint, processing efficiency and power consumption, traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face two key issues: (1) a lack of interoperability with access networks and (2) a lack of flexibility to customize non-functional properties such as event filtering, data aggregation and routing. In order to address these issues, this chapter investigates i...

Due to stringent constraints in memory footprint, processing efficiency and power consumption, traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) face two key issues: (1) a lack of interoperability with access networks and (2) a lack of flexibility to customize non-functional properties such as event filtering, data aggregation and routing. In order to address these issues, this chapter investigates i...