With many multimedia delivery schemes a client does not necessarily receive a given media content entirely (e.g. router congestions can lead some information to be lost). Mechanism...
Current computing environments are becoming increasingly complex in nature and exhibit unpredictable workloads. These environments create challenges to the design of systems that c...
Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (MBMS), introduced in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 6, is a point-to-multipoint downlink bearer service that addresse...
Antonios G. Alexiou, Christos Bouras, Vasileios Ko...
—Data replications is a typical strategy for improving access performance and data availability in Data Grid systems. Current works on data replication in Grid systems focus on t...
Abstract. The paper discusses the design and prototype implementation of a QoS-aware multimedia database system. Recent research in multimedia databases has devoted little attentio...
Yi-Cheng Tu, Sunil Prabhakar, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid,...