— This paper aims to present ideas to bridge the gap between two conflicting views of information: Shannon information, which is used to model physical layer information, and se...
The proliferation of mobile computers and wireless networks requires the design of future distributed real-time applications to recognize and deal with the signi cant asymmetry be...
Peer-to-peer based streaming has been a promising solution for large-scale video broadcasting over the Internet. In a peer-to-peer video streaming framework, peers cooperate with ...
Locally distributed Web server systems represent a costeffective solution to the performance problems due to high traffic volumes reaching popular Web sites. In this paper, we fo...
Data integration systems offer a uniform interface to a set of data sources. Despite recent progress, setting up and maintaining a data integration application still requires sign...