In ubiquitous computing environment, people carrying their mobile devices (eg., mobile phone, PDA, embedded devices) expect to access locally hosted services or resources anytime, ...
Transmissions over wireless and other unreliable networks can lead to packet loss. An area that has received limited research attention is how to tailor multimedia information tak...
Advances in Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks have propitiated the rise of Grids. The scheduling of applications is complex in Grids due ...
Interframe compression techniques, such as those used in MPEG video, give rise to a coded bit stream where picture sizes di er by a factor of 10 or more. As a result, bu ering is ...
Abstract—As a promising solution to manage the huge workload of large-scale VoD services, managed peer-assisted CDN systems, such as P4P [25] has attracted attention. Although th...