— The rendering mechanism used in Web browsers have a significant impact on the user behavior and delay tolerance of retrieval. The head-of-line blocking phenomena prevents the ...
—As the number of Mobile IP (MIP) [2] users grow, so will the demand for delay sensitive real-time applications, such as audio streaming, that require seamless handoff, namely, a...
Streaming media applications are becoming more popular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and films. Traditional client/server...
Marisa A. Vasconcelos, Leonardo C. da Rocha, Julia...
Middleware technologies such as Web Services, CORBA and DCOM have been very successful in solving distributed computing problems for a large family of application domains. As midd...
Abstract With the ongoing shift from off-line to on-line business processes, the Web has become an important business platform, and for most companies it is crucial to have an on-...