Abstract. The peer sampling service is a middleware service that provides random samples from a large decentralized network to support gossip-based applications such as multicast, ...
Three collision-avoidance protocols are analyzed that use omni-directional packet reception together with omnidirectional transmissions, directional transmissions, or a combinatio...
Transcoding is an important technology which adapts the same multimedia object to diverse mobile appliances; thus, users’ requests for a specified version of a multimedia objec...
This paper looks at the problem of data prioritization, commonly found in mobile ad-hoc networks. The proposed general solution uses a machine learning approach in order to learn ...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...