In recent years, a lot of research effort has been dedicated to the management of Quality of Service (QoS), mainly in the fields of telecommunication networks and multimedia syste...
Considering that current end to end communication services are not adapted for supporting efficiently distributed multimedia application, this paper introduces a new family of gene...
Integration—supporting multiple application classes with heterogeneous requirements—is an emerging trend in networks, file systems, and operating systems. In this paper, we e...
We present an approach for converged communication services over IP, based on the concept of WSIP (Web Service SIP). In our approach, each WSIP node is both a SIP endpoint that co...
The initiative of standardization of MPEG Query Format (MPQF) has refueled the research around the definition of a unified query language for digital content. The goal is to provi...