One of the important issues in the design of future generation high-speed networks is to provide differentiated services to different types of applications with various time const...
Finding an efficient configuration for cluster-based multi-tier Internet services is often a difficult task. Moreover, even a good configuration could become obsolete, depending o...
Abstract. Multimedia applications require the transmission of realtime streams over a network. These streams often exhibit variable bandwidth requirements, and require high bandwid...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with internet users. However, VoD is costly due to the load placed on video servers. Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques are an approach to...
Bin Cheng, Xiuzheng Liu, Zheng Zhang, Hai Jin, Lex...
The CARE middleware aims at supporting contextaware adaptation of Internet services in a mobile computing environment. The CARE hybrid reasoning mechanism is based on a loose inte...