One of the main issues that inhibit the development of contextaware mobile applications is the lack of systematic methods for sensor data acquisition. This lack, however, is a res...
Quality of service for high-bandwidth or delay-sensitive applications in the Internet, such as streaming media and online games, can be significantly improved by replicating serv...
We address the problem of message ordering for reliable multicast communication. End-to-end multicast ordering is useful for ensuring the collective integrity and consistency of d...
In order to provide a generic, applicationindependent and resource-efficient framework for server redundancy and session failover, the IETF RSerPool WG is currently standardizing ...
In this paper, we consider a distributed video server environment where video movies need not be stored entirely in one server. Blocks of a video movie are allowed to be distribut...