Pervasive computing environments are characterized by an additional heterogeneity compared to existing computing infrastructures. Devices ranging from small embedded systems to fu...
In this paper we present an interoperable multimedia delivery framework for scalable video coding based on MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA). In can be used to transmit scalab...
Michael Eberhard, Luca Celetto, Christian Timmerer...
In this paper, we present Spade - the System S declarative stream processing engine. System S is a large-scale, distributed data stream processing middleware under development at ...
Streaming multimedia applications, such as video on demand or conferencing are increasingly deployed in heterogeneous and mobile environments including Workstations, PDAs, mobile p...
Slim Ben Atallah, Oussama Layaida, Noel De Palma, ...
Increased platform heterogeneity and varying resource availability in distributed systems motivates the design of resource-aware applications, which ensure a desired performance l...