The service-oriented approach is becoming more and more popular to integrate highly heterogeneous systems. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware techno...
Ubiquitous computing systems can be regarded as open systems where heterogeneous and previously unknown entities may spontaneously interact, due to intrinsic mobility of users and...
In this paper, we propose a Joint Source-Network error control coding (JSNC) scheme which efficiently integrates scalable video coding, error control coding and overlay infrastruc...
Yufeng Shan, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, John W. Woods...
In recent years, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of data-centric distributed systems such as global grid infrastructures, sensor networks, network monitoring, and vari...
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...