One of the envisioned advantages of scalable video coding is its inherent suitability for achieving unequal error protection (UEP). UEP can be effectively used for graceful qualit...
This paper studies the problem of realizing a common software clock among a large set of nodes without an external time reference (i.e., internal clock synchronization), any centr...
—It has been widely acknowledged that online file hosting systems within the “cloud” of the Internet have provided valuable services to end users who wish to share files of a...
Fangming Liu, Ye Sun, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Xinyan Zh...
Little research exists on one of the most common, oldest, and most utilized forms of online social geographic information: the “location” field found in most virtual community...
Abstract. Accurate and fine-grained prediction of future user location and geographical profile has interesting and promising applications including targeted content service, adv...