In peer-to-peer overlay for video broadcast, peers contribute a portion of the bandwidth to the overlay in return for the service. In the presence of network heterogeneity, it is ...
Abstract--Wireless infrastructures can be conveniently categorized into two types: those that provide point-to-point `unicast' connectivity (e.g., cellular) and others that ar...
Context-aware systems allow users to access services and multimedia data according to their current context (location, identity, preferences). Web 2.0 fosters user contribution and...
Enabling high performance, persistent mobile computing has recently become a very active research area. The widespread popularity of mobile computing devices, such as laptops, han...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...