Skype is a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) voice over IP (VoIP) application evolving quickly since its launch in 2003. However, the ability to traverse network address translation (NAT...
The programmable service for Internet telephony (VoIP) allows end-users or third parties to define their own customized services. However, it imposes a serious drawback that serv...
—Healthcare services and systems throughout the world are in trouble and the proportion of expenditures devoted to healthcare is increasing rapidly. In addition to that, an incre...
The current VoIP transfer methods using low bit rate codes such as G.723.1 and G.729 are still very inefficient due to its small payload size in comparison with its large overhead ...
A number of distributed applications require communication services with Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. The QoS provisioning issue in the Internet has been addressed by the I...
Roberto Canonico, Simon Pietro Romano, Mauro Selli...