Abstract. We introduce the concept of Dynamic Rate Shaping, a technique to adapt the rate ofcompressed video bitstreams MPEG-1, MPEG2, H.261, as well as JPEG to dynamically varyi...
— Wireless sensor networks span from military applications into everyday life. Body sensor networks greatly benefit from wireless sensor networks to answer the biofeedback challe...
Orlando R. E. Pereira, Paulo A. C. S. Neves, Joel ...
Faster networks and cheaper storage have brought us to a point where I/O caching servers have an important role in the design of scalable, high-performance file systems. These int...
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) offer a convenient basis towards pervasive computing, due to inherent support for anytime, anywhere network access for mobile users. However, the dev...
Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...