In this paper we introduce a new model for the definition and the implementation of quality of service (QoS) in distributed multimedia systems. The model provides both the users an...
Athanasios G. Malamos, Elias N. Malamas, Theodora ...
Many large-scale distributed systems have been built with great complexity to run Internet services. Due to the heterogeneity and dynamics of complex systems, it is very difficult ...
Abstract--Peer-to-peer (P2P) video-on-demand (VoD) is a popular Internet service for a large number of concurrent users. Streaming capacity in a P2P VoD system is defined as the ma...
—Hierarchical cellular networks (HCNs), in which femtocells are deployed in the coverage of a conventional macrocell, offer a cost effective solution to achieve high user capacit...
—The traditional formulation of the total value of information transfer is a multi-commodity flow problem. Here, each data source is seen as generating a commodity along a fixe...