This paper introduces concast, a new network service. Concast is the inverse of multicast: multiple sources send messages toward the same destination, which results in a single me...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Amit Sehgal, Su...
Concast is a customizable many-to-one network-layer communication service. Although programmable services like concast can improve the efficiency of group applications, accompanyi...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Billy Mullins, ...
Concast is a scalable “inverse-multicast” network service: messages sent from multiple sources toward the same destination are merged into a single message that is delivered t...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Jim Griffioen, Amit Sehgal, Su...
This paper proposes MISSA, a novel middleware to facilitate the development and provision of stream-based services in emerging pervasive environments. The streambased services util...
Abstract - Recent advances in multimedia network systems have led to the development of a new generation of applications that associate the use of various multimedia objects. The c...