Voice over IP (VoIP) and Instant Messaging (IM) systems to date have either followed a client-server model or have required the use of clients that do not follow any VoIP or IM st...
—This paper details a novel architecture, MobiSplit [17], for managing mobility in future IP based networks. The architecture separates mobility management in two levels, local a...
This paper proposes a real options framework for evaluating architectural choices and the economic value of these alternative choices of networks, protocols, and services. Using p...
This paper presents HyMoNet, a peer-to-peer hybrid multicast overlay network for efficient live media streaming. The system comprises two parts: service infrastructure and user sp...
—Although IP Multicast is an effective network primitive for best-effort, large-scale, multi-point communication, many multicast applications such as shared whiteboards, multi-pl...