Management has become a key concern for the success of multicast deployment in the Internet. One of the most important management tasks for multicast is to verify the availability...
Multicast network services advantageously complement multimedia information and communication technologies, as they open up the realm for highly scalable multicustomer application...
While the IP unicast service has proven successful, extending end-to-end adaptation to multicast has been a difficult problem. Unlike the unicast case, multicast protocols must su...
Bluetooth Location Network (BLN) is a Bluetooth radio network that is composed of some mobile Bluetooth devices and static Bluetooth units, and is established at the system initia...
In this paper we investigate which characteristics reliable multicast services should have in order to be appropriate for use by distributed interactive media applications such as...