The Distributed Video Server (DVS) system provides a comprehensive solution for the management and distribution of a major future electronic commodity service, Video on Demand (VO...
Today’s multimedia environments are characterized by different stationary and a growing number of mobile devices, like PDAs or even mobile phones. To meet their requirements reg...
Michael Repplinger, Florian Winter, Marco Lohse, P...
Service overlay networks have recently attracted tremendous interests. In this paper, we propose a new integrated framework for specifying services composed of service components ...
The Internet today can be seen as a global market for electronic services. Each provider can offer its services, and customers can choose between several providers offering simila...
Satellite networks offer a number of desirable characteristics including wide area coverage, unique broadcast capabilities, the ability to communicate with hand-held devices, and ...