— We present a design for a system that provides video-on-demand (VOD) services to mobile ad hoc clients. Such a system allows the clients to access video information anytime any...
In this paper, we argue that a broad range of large-scale network services would benefit from a scalable mechanism for delivering state about a random subset of global participan...
Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie R. Albrech...
Netbill is a business model, set of protocols, and software implementation for commerce in information goods and other network delivered services. It has very low transaction cost...
Many content-oriented applications require a scalable text index. Building such an index is challenging. In addition to the logic of inserting and searching documents, developers ...
Security is a critical issue in mobile commerce, especially in mobile database systems since mobile environments are dynamic and traditional protection mechanisms do not work very...