Video-on-demand (VoD) is a next-generation Internet application of increasing interest allowing users to start watching a movie almost instantaneously by downloading the video on-...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) multicast is a scalable solution adopted by many video streaming systems. However, a prevalence of P2P applications has caused heavy traffic on the Internet. W...
— The effectiveness of cluster-based distributed sensor networks depends to a large extent on the coverage provided by the sensor deployment. We propose a virtual force algorithm...
A data stream is a continuous and high-speed flow of data items. High speed refers to the phenomenon that the data rate is high relative to the computational power. The increasing...
People spend most of their time at a few key locations, such as home and work. Being able to identify how the movements of people cluster around these “important places” is cru...