A number of distributed applications require communication services with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. The QoS provisioning issue in the Internet has been addressed by the I...
Roberto Canonico, Simon Pietro Romano, Mauro Selli...
— Measurement-based admission control (MBAC) is an attractive mechanism to concurrently offer quality of service (QoS) to users, without requiring a priori traffic specificatio...
The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
— Service Composition is a promising technology for providing on-demand services in dynamic and loosely coupled peerto-peer (P2P) networks. Because of system dynamics, such as th...
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...