By applying a proxy mechanism widely used in WWW systems to video streaming systems, low-delay and high-quality video distribution can be accomplished without imposing extra load o...
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
—Multi-channel operation in wireless systems has been proposed to increase user throughput and reduce transmission delays. However, multi-channel operation requires adequate reso...
Service engineering and service-oriented architecture as an integration and platform technology is a recent approach to software systems integration. Software quality aspects such ...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...