—Peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming has been widely deployed over the Internet. A streaming system usually has multiple channels, and peers may form multiple groups for content distrib...
Xing Jin, S.-H. Gary Chan, Wan-Ching Wong, Ali C. ...
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the world’s largest distributed computing system that performs the key function of translating user-friendly domain names to IP addresses through...
XML information retrieval (XML-IR) systems utilize the logical structure of XML documents for retrieving relevant elements. From a practical point of view, displaying the search r...
Abstract. MPEG-7 is a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. A lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions have been set up. Therefore, an efficie...
Because of information ubiquity, one observes an important trend towards transferring information management tasks from database systems to networks. We introduce the notion of Da...