The field of pervasive computing has seen a lot of exciting innovations in the past few years. However, there are currently no mechanisms for describing the properties and capabil...
Web server scalability can be greatly enhanced via hybrid data dissemination methods that use both unicast and multicast. Hybrid data dissemination is particularly promising due t...
Wenhui Zhang, Vincenzo Liberatore, Jonathan Beaver...
Today’s multimedia environments are characterized by different stationary and a growing number of mobile devices, like PDAs or even mobile phones. To meet their requirements reg...
Michael Repplinger, Florian Winter, Marco Lohse, P...
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...