Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for delay sensitive networked multimedia applications, such as teleoperation, must be application-to-application. We describe a set of services...
Next-generation network (NGN) is a new concept and becoming more and more important for future telecommunication networks. This paper illustrates five function layers of NGN archit...
—The amount of audiovisual data available on the Internet and thus of multimedia communication over today’s networks is increasing at a rapid pace. Despite the availability of ...
The main objective of the REMPLI project1 is to develop a distributed infrastructure suitable for realtime monitoring and control of energy distribution and consumption. PLC techn...
A number of research studies show that the operating system has a substantial influence on communication delay in distributed environments. Thus, in order to provide applications w...