This paper presents an extensive statistical study and analysis of the effects of channel delays in the current (best-effort) Internet on underflow events in MPEG-4 video streamin...
One of the promises of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is to build complex added-value services in order to enhance and extend existing ones. Service-Based Applications (S...
The enormous growth in wireless communications and miniaturized handheld devices in the last few years, have given rise to a vast range of new services, for heterogeneous user env...
The use of the World Wide Web and Java-based mobile code provides new opportunities for distributed simulation. First, the infrastructure provided by the Internet eliminates the n...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...