Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a new delivery method for TV. In contrast with native broadcast in traditional cable and satellite TV system, video streams in I...
Mobile devices often store data in reduced resolutions or custom formats in order to accommodate resource constraints and tailormade software. The Polyjuz framework enables sharin...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems share and manage huge amounts of data and resources distributed across a large number of machines. In pure P2P environments the control is totally decent...
of ‘‘network computers’’ is inherently lessAbstract predictable than that of more traditional distributed memory systems, such as hypercubes [22], since both theFor computa...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...