—Layered streaming is an effective solution to address the receiver heterogeneity in peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia distribution. This paper targets a fundamental challenge in thi...
Abstract— A fundamental paradigm in peer-to-peer (P2P) content distribution is that of a large community of intermittentlyconnected nodes that cooperate to share files. Because ...
— Considerable attention is now being devoted to the study of “complexity science” with the intent of discovering and applying universal laws of highly interconnected and evo...
This paper relates two different paradigms of descriptions of communication behaviour, one focussing on global message flows and another on end-point behaviours, using formal cal...
The qualities of non-sequentiality that make hypertext so appealing to writers and readers of informative and literary texts are also those that problematize arguments in the same...