– The UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) defines an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of intelligent appliances. It shares the service oriented architectur...
Sang Chul Ahn, Jung-Woo Lee, Kiwoong Lim, Heedong ...
The number of networked multimedia platforms that are introduced into the market has increased dramatically in recent years. Current approaches to multimedia distribution do not s...
Stijn Decneut, Filip Hendrickx, Steven Van Assche,...
Mobile devices like PDAs or mobile phones have become widespread. Similarly, network functionality like GSM, Bluetooth, or WLAN has become standard. Nevertheless, not many applica...
Middleware technologies such as Web Services, CORBA and DCOM have been very successful in solving distributed computing problems for a large family of application domains. As midd...
Current consumer electronics devices do not interoperate and are hard to use. Devices use proprietary, device-specific and inflexible protocols. Resources across device classes, s...