—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...
We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
Providing continuous on-demand streaming services with VCR functionality over ubiquitous environments is challenging due to the stringent QoS requirements of streaming service as ...
Qifeng Yu, Tianyin Xu, Baoliu Ye, Sanglu Lu, Daoxu...
Fair allocation of available bandwidth to competing flows is a simple form of quality of service (QoS) that can be provided to customers in packet-switched networks. A number of p...
This paper addresses several aspects related to the distribution of content. The first aim is to provide an overview of the Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) concept. The primary...