Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with “capsulesâ...
Large scale distributed applications combine network access with multiple storage and computational elements. The distributed responsibility for resource control creates new secur...
Sotiris Ioannidis, Steven M. Bellovin, John Ioanni...
The MPEG-4 standard includes support not only for natural video and audio, but also for synthetic graphics and sounds. In the MPEG-4 specifications, Body Animation Parameters (BAP...
Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Suchendra M. Bhandarkar,...
e a new operating system abstraction for partitioning systems, allowing multiple applications to run in isolation from each other on the same physical hardware. This isolation prev...
A new approach of coordination of decisions in a multi site system is proposed. It is based this approach on a multi-agent concept and on the principle of distributed network of e...