In the context of distributed multimedia applications involving multicast to a large number of users, a single quality of service level may not be appropriate for all participants....
Abstract. A company's ability to flexibly adapt to changing business requirements is one key factor to remain competitive. The required flexibility in peopledriven processes i...
Christoph Dorn, Thomas Burkhart, Dirk Werth, Schah...
The continuous increasing in performance requirements, for both scientic computation and industry, motivates the need of a powerful computing infrastructure. The Grid appeared as ...
Data-intensive, interactive applications are an important class of metacomputing (Grid) applications. They are characterized by large, time-varying data flows between data provid...
Streaming audio and video applications are becoming increasingly popular on the Internet, and the lack of effective congestion control in such applications is now a cause for sign...