Many distributed multimedia applications have the ability to adapt to uctuations in the network conditions. By adjusting temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or man...
1 DOD Joint Vision 2020 (JV2020) is the integrated multi-service planning document for conduct among coalition forces of future warfare. It requires the confluence of a number of k...
A quorum system is a collection of sets (quorums) every two of which intersect. Quorum systems have been used for many applications in the area of distributed systems, including mu...
Advances in high quality digital wireless networks and differentiated services have enabled the development of mobile multimedia applications that can execute in global infrastruct...
Fault-tolerance techniques based on checkpointing and message logging have been increasingly used in real-world applications to reduce service down-time. Most industrial applicati...