This paper describes a system that allows users who obtain a “wearable ID key” to personalize dynamically ubiquitous computers by simply touching them. We call the concept of ...
Mobile nodes rely on external services to provide safety, sharing, and additional resources. Unfortunately, as mobile nodes move through the networking infrastructure, the costs o...
Advances in networking and transmission of digital multimedia data will bring soon huge catalogues of music to users. Accessing these catalogues raises a problem for users and con...
This paper addresses the problem of bit-rate conversion of a previously compressed video. We provide an MPEG joint transcoder for transcoding several video bitstreams simultaneous...
Abstract. A metacomputing environment is a collection of geographically distributed resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks, ...
Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey, Ste...